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A600 heads for Britain 



THE smallest and newest computer in the 
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during May at a £399 price point. 
Commodore have just confirmed. 

The A60O-HD fitted with an internal 
20Mb hard disk drive will sell for £499 
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(itmmodarr cowry A&W during May 



plans lor models with higher capacities. 

Shown tor trie first time in the UK at 
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dled with art package Deluxe Paint III 
and an as yet unnamed game. 

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ranty, which is an unusual benefit for 



leisure home computer owners, and is 
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A570 shown and gains support 

THE A570 CD-ROM drive for the A50D and A500P was shown for the first time in the 
UK recently, as three software giants pledged their support for the system, 

Acclaim, Damark and Gremlin are the latest firms to say they will be releasing 
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'Christmas 1992 will see the first true market for CD-ROM-based games develop," 
said Acclaim's European vice president Rod Cousens. 

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by the new format." 

Gremlin are looking at using the increased storage capacity that CD offers to 
improve their Amiga games. 

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ventional floppy disks are becoming a less suitable storage medium." 

He continued: "The compact disc is the format of the future and Gremlin intend 
to be a leading player in this market from the very start." 

As. we went lo press. Commodore were still unable to confirm an on-sale date or 
price for the drive, although industry sources have speculated it will cost £269. 



Commodore in crisps link 

THE AGOQ is to feature in a new nationwide promotion being run between 
Commodore, Ocean Software and Smiths Crisps, 

Special Quaven packs will feature a decoder giving people the chance to win the 
new computer or copies of Pushover, Ocean's game starring Quavers'' character 
Colin Curly, 

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"This is the first time home computers have featured in this type of promotion 
and we're sure it will get the new Amiga off to a frying start." 

Quavers' Sally HoUowel! offered: "This is the first ever promotion of this type in 
the snacks sector and we are delighted to be involved with Commodore and Ocean. 

"The promotion a directly targeted at kids' number one leisure activity and we're 
convinced that this will secure a significant demand for Quavers during the 
summer." 

Price plunge for A500P 

PRICES for the A50OP Cartoon Classics pack have plunged further in the last lew weeks, 
despite Commodore claims that chains would return the bundle to £399 after Christmas. 

At least one High Street giant is now selling the pack for less than £350. With the cur- 
rent price war among electrical retailers, others are likely to follow. 

And one insider has told Amiga Computing to expect more cuts as shops attempt to 
clear stock as the arrival date of the A600 nears. 

Meanwhile, a rival manufacturer claimed retailers have been forced Lo drop prices 
because they are holding surplus Amig^s after a slack winter. 

CDTV grows Amiga bits 

THREE new CDTV peripherals 
to enable the player to oper- 
ate like any other Amiga were 
launched in London recently. 

They Included a 96-key 
Qwerty keyboard, a mouse 
and a 3.5in floppy disk dnve. 
Each is housed in a black 
case, enabling them to blend 
in with the player. 

They were released in 
Germany earlier this year in a 
bundfe called Amiga CDTV, but in Britain, where the standalone player is now sold as 
Amiga CDTV, Commodore will not be finding a new marketing name. 

"Thousands of homes are already enjoying the benefits offered by the standalone 
Amiga CDTV," claimed Commodore boss Steve franklin. "These add-ons can only 
serve lo make the system even more interactive and productive. 

"With the launch of other CD-ROM-based systems, Including [Philips] CD-I, creat- 
ing an even greater public awareness far this new form of home entertainment, 
Amiga CDTV can only continue to grow in stature." 

Prices were unavailable. 




CDTV turns Into tomputrr 



Amiga Computing Ji/jie f 992 




News 






Upgradable laser released 

DESKTOP publishers are being targeted for an upgradable HP Laserjet Ill-compatible laser 
printer, just released by Silica Systems (OBI -309 1 11 1 ). 

Selling for £699, the Ricoh LP1 200 has a resolution of up to 400 dots per inch, 2Mb 
of memory and a print speed of six pages per minute, 

A unique flash ROM upgrade feature allows owners to keep up to date with laser 
developments such as printer command languages. 

Silica spokesman Andy Leaning said: "The Ricoh LP12O0 is the ideal printer for Amiga 
users. With 2Mb ol RAM as standard an-d up to 400 riots per inch, it is perfect for DTP 
work. 

He continued: "Other laser printers with less memory cannot handle such work with- 
out expensive extra, memory. Silica recommend the LP 1 .200 for any Atari ST user/' 

Frontier products saved 

MARPET Developments have grabbed all rights to Frontier Software's Amiga 
products including the Xtra-RAM A5Q0+ memory expansion board. 

The move follows the recent collapse of Arben Electronics, who traded as 
Frontier Software. Based in North Yorkshire, Marpet can he telephoned on 042 3 
567140. 



C Force powers up 




Xtra-RAM ASQQ* po*! I» Wwjwf Qtrrlopnvati 

Europress sponsor show 

EUROPRESS Publications, publishers of Amtgo Computing, have joined forces with show 
organiser Westminster Exhibitions to sponsor the next International Computer Show. 

Incorporating the popular 16 Bit Computer Show, the event is to be focused entirely 
around the home computer market. More than 180 exhibitors are due and many intend 
to show latest Amiga products. 

Said Europress's jane Conway: "The show is respected for giving enthusiasts the 
opportunity to see new Amiga software and hardware and buy it at discounted prices. 

"Readers will be able to meet o-ur editorial stafl and we will be extending discounts for 
many production sale throughout the Show," She added. 

"We are delighted to be working alongside Europress," said Westminster boss Tim 
Collins, "We like the editorial style of its magazine and feel they give total coverage of, 
and totally reflect, our target market," 

It will be held at Wembley Exhibition Halls, London on July 10 to 12, 



Commodore 
power up 

OWNERS of AlSOOs and A2000s 
will soon be able to upgrade to 
the powerful AlOOD at special 
exchange prices. 

Prices and confirmed details of 
the Power Up scheme remain to 
be announced by Commodore. 



Mid-ranyr Amiga an/am wNI br offered 
upgrades fo the AiQOO 




AMERICAN peripheral giant Great Valley 
Products' have redesigned their Combo 
range ol A2000 accelerators to give 
improved performance- 

The old 22MHz board has been 
replaced with the C-Force 030 running 
at 25 MHz and featuring a built-in SCSI 
controller and maths co-processor. 

One megabyte of memory is supplied 
- expandable to 1 3Mb - and it costs 
£599. 

Taking the place of Combo 33 is a 
40MH* version. Also fitted with a maths 
co-processor, it has 4Mb of memory 
which can be increased to "16Mb. Price: 
£999. 

And at the top of the range is a 



50 M if 2 board, running from a standard 

68030 processor. Sold with 4Mb of RAM 
and accepting a maximum of 16Mb, it 
costs £1,39?- 

The 25MHz and 40MHz versions use 
economical 6B0EC3O processors and the 
50MHz board runs from a standard 
68030 chip. All three can be bought 
with an optional hard drive mounting 
kit. 

CVP president Gerard Bucas com- 
mented: "There is no reason to look 
beyond G- Force 030 for performance or 
price, no matter what your accelerator 
needs." 

The UK distributor is Silica Systems on 
081-309 1111. 



Music tools 
cleared 

TOOLS Without a Home is a scheme 

just started by Amiga music specialist 
The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks lor 
users ol the company's Ban d Pipes 
range of software. 

Run as a "clearing house" lor tools 
and accessories developed by and for 
users of the program, these collec- 
tions are then sold directly from the 
firm For a small charge, 

"Over the past few months we've 
been amazed at just how many users 
are treating their own enhancements 
to Bars & Pipes and Bars h Pipes 
Professional," said Blue Ribbon's 
Allison Plant. 

"We hope that the Tools Without a 
Home program will inspire even 
more. Those users who don't create 
their own tools and accessories will 
surely benefit from those who- do," 

For more information call UK dis- 
tributor Zone Distribution on 071- 
, 38 5444. 



Mindscape 



ALL departments at Mindscape 
International are now operating 
from Priority House, Charles 
Avenue, Burgess Hill, West Sussex 
RH15 SPQ. The telephone number 
i; 0444 246333 



ADI teaches 
on Amiga 




Children man ia mert AN, fhr tain! 

education package 

CHILDREN between 11 and 14 years ofd 
are to be targeted for a new range of 
Amiga home study programs due soon 
from the company behind the best selling 
Fun School software. 

Maths, English and French are taught 
in 12 separate packages, where a "love- 
able" extra-terrestrial called ADI guides, 
helps and tutors the student through 
each subject, 

ADI uses facial expressions to interact 
with children, checking their performance 
at regular intervals, whistling at their 
progress and going to sleep when bored. 
To help keep the pupil's attention he 
tells jokes and helps them play games for 
recreation and reward. 

"ADI has so much personality that, 
during testing, young students happily 
spent long sessions working on the exer- 
cises," claimed Europress Software boss 
Chris Payne- 
Each disk costs £25. 99. Europress can 
be telephoned on 0625 859333. 



Extras for SuperJAM 

THREE extra disks are to be released for The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks' SupefJAM inter- 
active composition program, 

They are the Pop/Rock, Classical and Cutting Edge disks and each contains a collec- 
tion of new musical styles, demos and sample chord progressions. 

The UK supplier, Zone Distribution (071 -738 5444), were unable to supply prices as 
we went to press. 



Amiga tempt/ting June f 992 



Some things are worth 

waiting for ... 



HiSoft Devpac 3 

[Uc-vpac Version 3 is here at List. The two earlier versions oJ I BSofl F Vvp.u r ■ i r 1 1 1< 
Arnica set .1 standard in frSQOO assembly language programming v. -.\. I •.-, ttS hud to 
surpass, but we think that We Ve done it. This new package has had a complete face- 
lift, from the editor through to the debugger; in fact so many features have been 
added and improved that we fee] confident in the claim that Devpac 3 is the ultimate 
assembly language development system on the Amiga ... for now! 



The Editor 

A new multi-window editor with 
bookmarks, mouse block-marking, 
macros, complete window flexibility 
'.including multi-views on one file), 
extensive user configuration and frill 
integration with the other Devpac 
programs. The editor makes US* of 
Workbench 2 or 1.3 automatic* 11 v. 

The Assembler 

unproved and extended, the Devpac 3 
assemble! to now a! taut + v I Lister than 
its predecessor (without pre-assembly), 
supports the full bStM) range of proces- 
sors including the maths co-processors 
and has a tremendous number of 
svvili hdbli' optimisations. With the 
ability to pre-assemble files for inclusion, 
it can now claim to be the fastest 
assembler on the Amiga. 




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Hew version of Prodnto now with pull-down 
menus, mouse or keyboard operation, 
automatic record numbering, merge database, 
instantaneous filtering prologue form, edit 
fields in any order, 2 across label printing. Full 
detail] available from Arnor. 

Pik«: ES5+VAT, upgrade from vl.l £30tVAL 



PRICES (including VAT and delivery) 

For Commodore Amiga, Atari ST or TT. 
Pretext 5,5 £152.75 

Upgrade from 5,0 to S.5 00 

Upgrade Irom 4.2/4.3 la 5.5 £oO 

Please tettitn yow original diski when upgrading 
French or German spelling dictionary £35.25 
Whfa upgrading pleate fttvnt any extra ipefl checking 
dkHonariei hi a bee update to the reviied version. 



with Pretext 5 5 because the pop-up thesaurus will 
provide you with inspiration whenever you need it. With 
words provided by Collins the thesaurus has 43,000 main 
entries and 827,900 responses! 

Protext 5.5 introduces enhanced text formatting options 
Automatic hyphenation lets you produce a well spaced 

page layout without the bother of manually putting in 
soft hyphens. Protext determines the correct hyphenation 
points by algorithms and look -up tobies. Elimination of 
widow; and orphans is also provided. You will no longer 
need to worry about those infuriating single lines at the 
loo or bottom of pages. Protext formats the text to avoid 
these as you edit Ihe text. Extra blank lines at the top of 
o page con be suppressed. - 

New document analysis features provide wealth af 
information about your text. You can examine o list of 
all the words used - alphabetically or by the number of 
occurrences. Other Statistics shown include average word 
length, average sentence length and a table of the 
number of lines on each page. 

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methods, bulk copy and erase. 
.V Prndato users mail merge directly from Pradata 

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,V Mail merge: nested repeal loops. 
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News 



im National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) arc to 
benefit from National Play a Came Day, heSd recently to raise awareness of the 
advantages of computer games. 

Created and organised jointly by Lhe European Leisure Software Publishers 
Association (ELSPA) and show organiser Blenheim Online, It will become a 
yearly fund-raising event. 

Money will be raised for the charity through retail and sales promotions and 
many major companies including Commodore have thrown their support 
behind the even). 

Blenheim's |ohn Murrey commented] 'This is a marvellous opportunity to 
not only help spread the understanding and enjoyment of video arid iurri|juU'r 
game products, but also benefit an excellent charity. 



Stunning sound 
from SunRize 



StINRJZt Industries are now selling their 
AD 101 2 digital audio card with Studio 
16 editing software, enabling several 
hour* Df sound to be recorded directly to 
hard disk. 

lhe AD1012 has a built-in 5MPTE 
time code reader to allow synchronisa- 
tion of digital sound to videotape and it 
can record, edit and play back four tracks 
direct to a hard disk. 

It plays sound with 1 2 bits of resolu- 
tion at sampling rates of up to 100,000 
samples every second. 

Two eighth order linear phase anti- 



aliasing filters are provided one for 
input and output.. 

A sound accelerator chip allows the 
* card to perform digital effects - such as 
flanging, chorusing and echoes in real 
time. 

Studio 16's features include cut, copy 
and paste and mis, as well as more 
advanced lunctions such as an SMPTE 
cue list. 

FcH use with the A1500, A2000 or 
A3000, it costs USJ595. California-based 
SunFtire can be telephoned on 010 1 408 
374 4%2. 



Oxxi on 
the move 

OXXI UK, formerly Precision 
Software, have moved offices. The 
new address Is 17! Bath Road, 
Slough, Berkshire SL1 4AA. 



Transport 
on disk 

SIX Amiga clip art disks featuring trans- 
part are to be released in |une by 
Diskotech (05912 242). 

Titles in the Maviechp range include 
Road Traffic 1, Air Traffic, Rail Riders, 
Horse Traffic and Water Traffic. Each casts 
£1 and a demo can be bought lor CI , 



DO YOU 

KNOW 

SOMETHING 

WE DON T? 

Although Amiga Gamputtog has scores 
of con facts in the Amiga world, we 
need you. If you have some hot news, 
ring John Butters on the news desk 
now on 0625 878988 or lax to 062 S 
a 79966 . All inlormalion supplied will 
be treated In the strictest of confi- 



Better beats 

BEAT Studio is the latest stereo sound 

sampler, just released by City Beat (02 34 
857777). 

Sampling and editing software with 
more than 1 DD functions is packaged 
with a stereo sampling: cartridge which 
connects to the computer's parallel port. 

The cartridge accepts sound from 
sources including CD players, personal 
stereos, radios and cassette recorders. 

Among Beat Studio's features are real 
lime sampling in mono, stereo and simu- 
lated stereo modes and sampling at over 
36kH7 in stereo and more than 57kHz in 
mono. It has a variety of editing and real- 
time options, loop play, a song sequencer 
linking up to nine samples to create 
songs and a Midi sequencer enabling a 
Midi keyboard to be programmed. Price: 
£39.95. 



More go 
to CeBit 

ATTENDANCE at this year's C eBH 
show grew to 640,000 - an increase 
of more than 1 per cent over last 
year - and the organisers have 
announced that next year's Hanover 
event will run from March 24 to 30. 



Megadrive 

comes to 

Amiga 

AMIGA joystick wagglers will soon be 
able to play Sega Megadrive games, on 
their computer using Amiga Drive, a 
new emulator from Advanced 
Emulation. 

But price rules the move out as a rea- 
sonable option. The proposed cast of 
the software and cartridge-to-disk adap- 
tor at £1 19 takes Amiga Drive just £10 
short of the recommended price for the 
actual Sega machine supplied with a top 
game. 

Though details of the product arrived 
on April 1, it is not believed to be an 
April Fools joke. The press was not given 
a telephone number for the manufac- 
turer. 



Music 

program 

fixed 

MINOR improvements and bug fixes 
have been made to The 6lue Ribbon 
Soundwork's Ears and Pipes Professional 
Midi program. 

Version 1 ,0e also lets Pro Studio Kit 
and Creativity Kit to be used to their full 
potential. 

Users can upgrade by sending details 
of their serial number and USJ9.50 to 
the firm at 1293 Bn'ardals NE, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30306, USA or by telephoning 
010 1 404 377 1514, 



Improved 

animation 

for CDTV 

A HIGH performance animation and 
video formal used in CDTV players is 
now available for developers using 

ASPC's Art Department Professional, 

ADPro's new CDXt input and output 
modules allow high speed access to any 
frame in an animation or video sequence 
and enable information to be associated 
with each frame 

CDXL allows playback of guarter to 
third screen video sequences at 1 2 to 1 5 
frames per second, with 4,096 colours 
on-screen and sound. 

Wisconsin-based ASDG can be tele- 
phoned on 01 1 608 273 6585- 

Keeping it 
clean 

IT is the policy Df Amiga Compuffng 
not to accept advertisements offering 
software containing pornography or 
scenes of excessive violence. 



DIARY 
DATES 



28 to 31 May 1992 

Spring Compiler Shopper Snow 

Organiser Blenheim PEL 

(081-742 2S2S) 

Venue; Olympic, London 

An area called Amiga Shopping 

Centre will be devoted to the 

machine. 



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10 to 12 |uly 1992 

6th Internaliom} Computer Shaw 
Organiser; Westminster foMWfofw 
$81-5493444) 
Venue; Wembley Exhibition Haiti, 
London 

The second show of the year, for an 
event that's getting more and more 
support Irom the industry and spon- 
sorship from Amigo Computing. 

6 to 8 September 1992 

European Computer Trade Snow 
Autumn 

Organiser Blenheim PEL 
(08 1 -742 2828) 
Venue: Susineis Design Centre 
A new trade-only event for the com- 
puter leisure industry. 



StoS November 1992 

Wodd of Commodore '92 

(0225 H2244) 

Venue: Earls Court 2, London 

A Commodore -specific exhibition, 

with plenty for Amiga users. 






OVERSEAS 



28toJl May 1992 

Consumer Electronics Show 

Organiser: EfC/C£C 

Venue: Chicago 

The show opens lor the first time for 

the public on May 30, 1 992. 

8 to 1 1 October 1992 

Computer Shopper Show 
Organiser: AMI Shows Europe 
(010 49 2234 22021) 
Venue; KoSn Messe 
A chance to catch up on the year's 
developments in the active Amiga 
world. 
Used to be known as Amiga Koln. 

26 to 29 November 1992 

World of Commodore '92 

Organiser.' fairs k fun 

fflO 49 8106 34094) 

Venue: Frankfurt Exhibition Halts 

The main Commodore show in 

Germany. 100,000 visitors expected. 

* If your company is organising a 
show relevant to the Amiga and it's 
not listed, let us know so we can 
include the information In the diary. 



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fS a big month for Amigans who use their machines for more than shoot- 
em-ups. Snft-Logifc have released the Hotlinks Edition add-on for 
PageSlream, Cold Disk have finally shipped Professional Page vi.O, and New 
Horizons have yet another ProWrUe update. 

Gamers shouldn't despair, either. Although it seems that more and more enter 
tainment software is coming from the UK nowadays, a few superb entertainment 
packages of US origin have been released as well. 

Most notable is the long awaited Black Crypt, Electronic Arts' labyrinthian 
game that includes 20 interconnected dungeons and hundreds of horrid, cunning 
beasts, all rendered in beautiful 64-colour halfbrite graphics, 

While Black Crypt is technically impressive, some hard core garners have 
reported finishing it in as little as a few days. If this happens to you, check put 
New World Computing's Might and Magic 111; Isles of Terra for the Amiga, 

Over 4Mb of compressed graphics and sounds, t qrtMl JD perspective. ,ind 
both dungeon and outside locales will make the IO0 ■ hours of challenging play 
contained in this game eliciting and fun. 

A third dungeon gam* ol American origin MindCralt s The Keys to Maramon, 
Is worth skipping, unless you really want to relive the c-*pt'rk>mr ui plavinu dun 
qeon games on a circa 1983 Apple It. 



Tanks for the 
upgrade 

If you've ever flown one of Dynamic's 
flight simulators in the past, you ''11 proba- 
bly have been impressed by the sim's 
detail and accuracy, but felt let down by 
the poor frame rate especially if you've 
got a stock Amiga 500 with a 7.14MHz 
GflOQO chip, 

Well, with the help of ace Amiga pro- 
grammers Rhett Anderson and Randy 
Thompson, Dynamic have gone back to 
the drawing board and created A- TO Tank 
Killer 1.5. 

The 3-Space graphics system has been 
rewritten from the ground up, providing a 
good frame rate on a stock 68O00 
machine, and silly-smooth screen updat- 
ing on faster machines. 

Mew options include eight user- 
selectable graphics modes while flying, 
including extra-hailbrite, light-source 



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missions and aver 20 missions, including a 
number of actual Operation Desert Storm 
flights, 

Upgrades are available for owners of 
the original A.-1Q - contact Sierra for 
details. If you've been wanting a sim with 
Dynamix accuracy and MicroPros? screen- 
update speed, look no further. 



ProWrite gets 
even better 

New Horizons have announced yet 
-another update of ProWrite, vi.2.3. The 
actual program has changed little - mainly 
bug fixes and faster printing speed (up to 
four times quicker on high resolution 
printers). 

The bonus comes on an extra disk 
which includes a number of new fonts in a 
variety of sizes to support ProWrite 
v3.2.3's PostScript and High Quality print 
options, as well as an improved utility pro- 
gram that will be very useful to those 
upgrading from other wordprocessors, 

ProWrite v3.2.3's Convert utility will 
convert document Hies from BeckerText, 
excellence?, Final Copy, KindWords, Pen 
Pal, Scribble!, TextCralt and TextCraft 
Plus, TextPro, and WordPerfect to 
ProWrite format. 

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ost erf you will probably own 
some version or other of 
DPaint, one ol the most versa- 
tile and simple to use graphics packages 
available for the Amiga. 

Having said that, how many of you will 
have had occasion to put any or all of 
DPaint's numerous features to use, either 
during an animation, or as static Amiga 
art? 

Initially we planned to release a com- 
plementary animation on theCoverDisk to 
help explain the finer points of the anima- 
tion prrxess. Unfortunately the arrival of 
SID 2 means that the release of the anim 
has had to be delayed. 

As a result, to get the lull benefit from 
the tutorial you'll have to wait for next 
month's issue oi AC To run the anim, 
you'll need a 1 Mb machine and a copy of 
DPaint 3 or upwards. 

When I set out to create the animation 
l was faced with a dilemma. The brief was 
to treate a DPaint animation using as 
many different techniques as possible, 
employing DPaint as the centre pin. 



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First off, everyone's perception of ani- 
mation is different A superb piece of char- 
acter animation could be done on DPaint, 
but for the purpose of a tutorial it would 
be pointless, since character animators 
have a whole host of tricks at their dis- 
posal that can't be found in any animation 
package, however comprehensive it may 
appear, 

Designers of animated graphics and 
title sequences will insist that what they 
do involves animation, for example tum- 
bling logos. Character animators would 
disagree by explaining they are merely 
moving things around, and so the general 
confusion goes on - well, that's my 
excuse.*, 

At the outset, one thing becomes clear 
after tinkering with DPaint - you can cre- 
ate a lot of fancy effects in terms of a 
"look", regardless of whether you are 
enhancing existing DPaint animations by 
employing additional digitising with sys- 
tems such « DlgFView, or perhaps trying 
to emulate the look of video game graph- 
ics.. 

In the case of the demo animation, Lhe 
intent has been to approach the look of 
something slicker than you'd expect to 
see from DPaint. The software allows you 
to do all sons of crazy things that you'd 
expect to see in high-end systems such as 
uantel's Paintftox plus there's the 

ded bonus of animation. 

ftelieve me, I tried very hard to avoid 
the cliche of an animated logo when it 
came to arming at an Idea. However, after 
a lot of brainstorming - and the fart that I 
only had a week left to do the sequence! - 
the all-important idea seemed obvious. 

I say "all-important" because anything 
you do has to start with an idea, hopefully 
providing you with an initial structure to 
create the animation around, OK, so 



superficially speaking the demo is basi- 
cally a '"tumbling logo", but how does its 
creation involve animation? Well, 
it's moving, and it exists within 
a predetermined time frame. 

Basically you're trying 
to get Something tD go 
from A to B in a hope- 
fully interesting and 
entertaining man- 
ner, as well as 
informing people 
that they should buy 
Amiga Computing instead of 
any other magazine - as if any 
one needed telling 

Don't be put off by the 
fact that the demo is not 
of some cute animated 
person doing strange 
things - this is also 
possible with DPaint, 
but would take 
infinitely longer to pro. 
duce and require much more 
pre-planning to execute. A 



the bits necessary to recreate or create 
your own animation will be available on 
next month's 

CoverDisk, com- 
prising of a couple 
of IFF files. As a 
result, you can 
Jeam the finer points 
of the animation 
process this month 
and apply your 
newly-acquired 




pac**jy : 

Imagine, the 3D ray tracing package from 
Impulse. 

The only proviso is that images satisfy 
the rule of compatibility with the Amiga's 
standard IFf format. However, since the 
demo employs DPaint J, which cannot 
accept 4,096 Ham images, the graphics 
created in Imagine had to be re-saved as 
64-colour lo-res IFF files, using DigiVlew 
to do the re-conforming. 



Challenge 



skills with 
the assistance of next 
month's Disk. 

Thankfully most 

software designers 

working on Amiga 

products have sensibly 

enabled users to load 

images treated Dn a wide 

variety of other graphics 



Why bother, you may well ask, when 
you could originate everything in DPaint? 
In this particular case, the reason was that 
I set myself a challenge to try to see if you 
Could achieve certain effects more quickly 
using another package - namely the 
appearance of solid objects, light and 
shade and sd on, and then import those 
images into DPaint for animation pur 
poses. 

True, you can create a very convincing 
3D effect in DPaint, if you have a rudi- 
mentary knowledge of how things should 



Animate 

Ravi Swami provides the definitive guide to animation, along 
with some essential hints and tips on expanding your 
artistic horizons 




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Animation 



look. and a few artistic tricks up your 
sleeve^ Nevertheless [ plumbed for 
imagine and spent the next two hours set- 
ting it up to render a reasonably convinc- 
ing relief image of the AC logo. 

Once set up, and with the aid ot 
.•-• .,; test renderings, could change 
the lighting conditions, colours, bumpi- 
nejs and so on in a way that, at best, 
would be difficult in DPaint. My only con- 
cern was that all this would be lost in the 
Ham to lo-res conversion process. 

I was wrong... DigiView does an excel- 
lent job in re-computing a reduced colour 
palette and resolution for any image you 
may load Into it. 

The end result in this case was some- 
thing that still looked remarkably realistic 
and solid, I rendered all the bits and 
pieces in Imagine simply because it was so 
quick and easy to do - this included the 
support columns of the Logo pan-el. 

Different palette 

'iVhen you do this with different objects, 
you will find that the colour palette saved 
aiII be different for each IFF file. This can 

be a nasty surprise when you load them 
into DPaint, but it's easily remedied by 
executing the ReMap function. 

Any errors in the palette can be cor- 
rected by simply re-mapping all successive 
•mages so (hey match the entire collection 
ol frames to the original palette. 

The animation elements have been bro- 
ken down into the background image and 



Power packages 



The additional packages used in the creation of the demo were 
Imagine from Impulse and Newtek's DigiView, Both of these 
require a minimum of 2Mb of RAM to be of any use and of the 
two. Imagine is the most memory-hungry sfnee it is a 30 package. 

Obviously the ability ro bring in material from other sources will 
extend the usefulness of DPaint in creating animated sequences. 
The DigiVlew package is just one of many that will allow you to 
grab images Irom any source, whether it be video camera or 'TV, 
saving them in a variety of resolutions. 

These can then be loaded into DPaint and used as additional 
elements within your animations. If this approach is taken then it is 
advisable that some means of mass storage be found to handle the 
large number of frames that may be required For ,m Animation. 

Ideally this couid be a hard disk, unless you intend creating 
everything as short cycles strung together, which soon becomes 
tedious. 

One application I had occasion to use involved digitising draw- 
ing I created by a traditional animator, which were taken into 
Photon Paint - a Ham paint package - along with some other 
material digitised in DigiView The frames were then treated and 
given a look that would have been difficult to achieve any other 
way. 

It is very difficult for computers to emulate the methods used by 
animators to create animation. Some 3D packages are able to 
implement processes like in-betweening or 'tweenlng as It's more 
often known, where the animator will set up key positions for a 
character or object, and the software will work out the intermedi- 
ate frames. 

In a 2D situation this is more complex, unless the 2D package 
involves what is called structured drawing, a type of vector-based 
drawing, which uses more memory than a package like DPaint. 

At best, something like DPaint can figure out screen locations 
between key positions which you may define, but the object it 
moves will not change in itself. 

Some recent packages allow you to oVaw images on successive 
frames for an animation and then, rather like traditional animators 
using a light box to see the drawing underneath, enable you to 



overlay a ghosted image of the previous trame on the current 
page you are working on. What it boils down to is that a large 
part of an animator's understanding is based upon an aware- 
ness of illusion, and the tricks of perspective, whereas a torn 
puter can only see things as logical absolutes. 

For example, a computer can show you a cube that looks the 
way it looks in the real worid, with diminishing perspective and 
so on, but to the computer it is simply a perfectly mathematical 
entity, without any of the distortions that arise from vision and 
point of view, 

This leads rather neatly to the subject of 3D packages for the 
Amiga, which vary from ones which aflow you to create simple 
3D objects to others which allow you to generate entire uni- 
verses in your bedroom. 

Some 3D packages that I would recommend in Sculpt 
Animate 40, which to some extent has been left behind by 
other ray tracing packages, but nevertheless still has some 
unique features, Perhaps the premier packages are Real 3D - 
which is what's called a solid modeller, and the excellent 
Imagine 2,0. 

Since Real 3D Is primitive-based, creating complex objects is 
more difficult than with Imagine, although the very latest ver- 
sion - 1.4 does support very similar organic object modelling 
tools as Imagine, and like Imagine Its possible to load objects 
created in other packages into Real ID in order to take advan 
tage of Its superior rendering capabilities. 

Of the three, my personal favourite Is Imagine, since it 
knocks spots off the others in terms of features. These include 
most kinds of surface mapping a complex but powerful anima- 
tion interface, and a sophisticated modeller. 

All these packages require a fair bit of work in order to pro- 
duce anything worthwhile, but the results can be stunning - 
especially considering the price. 

No package is going to do alt the work for you in any case, 
and where animation fs concerned it's best to do some pre- 
planning before you even decide which package fs best suited aM 
to your needs, 






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the foreground panel, along with support 
columns and assorted additional objects. 

I anticipated my sequence being a 25- 
frame cycle. You wilt see a lot of "cycles'" 
in Amiga PD anirns, simply because they 
can be very effective and look like a lot 
more work than is actually involved. If the 
timing is correct they can have an almost 
hypnotic effect. 

The actual animation part of the 
sequence - once I had prepared all the 
actors (or mobile elements) - employed 
functions which for the most part are to 
be found in the Anim/Move requester, 

Before t go on, I should explain that, 
depending, upon the complexity of your 
scene, like traditional animators, its a 
good idea to pre-plan the in and out 
points ot actors, and the duration of cycles 
on paper. 

Dope sheets 

Animators use what ace called dope- 
sheets which are divided op into frames, 
onto which all the different levels of ani- 
mation can be entered on a frame-by- 
frame basis. 

The Move requester is an extremely 
powerful means of controlling* animated 
effects in DPaint, and because parameters- 
are entered numerically, they are infinitely 
more accurate than, say, using the Left 
Amiga key and dragging a brush around 
manually - a technique which has its mer- 
its, but would 



require an entire additional article to 
explain in full 

It's a good idea to build animations 
from the back up,, ie the furthest away ele- 
ment first and then successive levels, in 
rather the same way that traditional ani- 
mation is done. This is because you are 
dealing with a two-dimensional medium. 

If you don't do this, then its almost 
impossible to correct mistakes without 
rebuilding the sequence from scratch - 
saving each level as a separate anim is one 
way around this, 

In our example anim, the background 
had to scroll continuously and the lore- 
ground spin. As. a result, a layered con- 
struction was ideal for the job. 

The first job in the creation of any 
DPaint-based anim is to enter the anim 
length into the appropriate requester, and 
ensure that frame one is the current 
screen. 

I loaded the background image into 
the "scratch" screen next, accessed using 
the | key, and then cut out as a brush, 

The brush was then carried over into 
frame one and stamped down so that it 
filled the entire screen. At this stage, I 
entered the Move requester. Since the ani- 
mation was to move from lelt to right, I 
entered a positive value in the K box. 

You can preview the move by hitting 
Preview and then OK, alter which a 
ghosted grid performs the move, showing 
the start and end points and every posi- 
tion in between. 

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adjustments, or commit yourself to the 
move by selecting Draw, which actually 
initiates the creation of the animation 
frames. 

Useful gadgets 

Two very useful gadgets in the Move 

requester control the way in which frames 
are laid down before Draw has been 
selected. These have no name as such, but 
are depicted graphically at the right of the 
requester as symbols not unlike the for- 
ward/reverse symbols on a VCR. 

The requester defaults to laying frames 
down logically from 



frame one upwards, and if you have fol- 
lowed the previously outlined procedure, 
you should have a smoothly scrolling 
panel going from one end of the screen to 
the other - depending upon the X value 
that you entered. 

Assuming that most people trying this 
are not going to have more than 1 Mb of 
HAM to play with and do not possess a co- 
processor, sp-ecd of playback is dependent 
upon the amount of HAM available, and 
also the sire and changes within the 
image being animated. 

At this stage you should have an ani- 
mation of a very large brush, moving from 
left to right across the Amiga screen, The 
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ous scrolling background. Re-entering the 
Move requester finds the forward, 'reverse 
symbols previously mentioned You then 
change the leftmost symbol to the one 
next to il - an arrow with a dot on it. 

VOU lh*?n qo lo I he group of three sym- 
bols, and change the highlighted arrows - 
pointing right - to the ones painting left, 
ignoring the symbol in the middle which 
looks like two vertical lines. 

Preview 

If you hit the Preview button, you'll see 
the animation in reverse, but no ghosted 
grid - this is because yog have not yet 
stamped down the brush. 

If you do by chance hit Draw at (his 
point, the new move will be created from 
the last frame of the previous move. To 
create the move seen in the demo, go to 
the very last frame of the animation and 
stamp the brush down so that it butts 
right up to the edge of the previously laid 
down brush. 

Going back to the Move requester and 



hitting Preview verifies that (he animation 
is now to be laid down in reverse. 

A note here - always use Preview 
before committing yourself to any prede- 
fined move, just in case it is not quite 
right, as the Draw lunction is not Undo- 
able. 

A value of approximately 230 units 
should be in the X box for this lo work as 
a continuous scroll, but I have purposely 
avoided giving an exact figure since it is 
best to employ a bit of trial and error lo 
see exactly how the Move requester 
works, 

Under the directional boxes lor each 
axis, at the top of the Move requester, are 
boxes for entering an angle value. This 
refers a perspective value lor either the X, 
Y or Z axis, and can produce some stun- 
ning effects, not unlike DV£ or Digital 
Video Effects, seen on TV, when used 
alone ar in combination. 

These were used, in the V axis, to cre- 
ate the spinning AC logo on the next level 
ol the animation, by cutting the Logo out 
as a brush, as before, and then placing it 



in the centre of the screen over frame one 
of the background animation, 

For a beginner, the end result of the 
above should provide some idea of what 
you can achieve using DPaint's animation 
tools. The demo example, however, 
includes some animation which uses 
DPaint techniques to simulate 3D motion 
using 2D images, namely the panel sup- 
ports. 

This took some lime to create - about 
three hours - but really only employed the 
SbK/Srjetcti (unction on a brush, and used 
the edge of the animated panel as an 
anchor-point for the animation. It shows 
thai with a bit of careful fiddling about 
and tweaking, some interesting effects can 
be achieved. 

The IFF files included with next month's 
demo include some other brush images 
which you can use in other anims created 
using the base elements supplied, 

For example, try using the Move 
requester to plot non-linear motion paths, 
or use the I axis Lo make objects seem, to 
travel towards or away from you. 



Conversing with the professionals 



One issue that occasionally crops up is that of the compatibil 
ity of the Amiga with professional broadcast quality equip 
ment. This may not affect most users ol Amuj.is who will at 
best be transferring their work to domestic VCRs. However 
like myself - who have occasion to use their 



The fact of the -matter is that 
"i possible to transfer Amiga 
phkj to any type of broadcast 
quality tape, from LF-Matk to Tin 
*l D>ijit.il with excellent results, 

V depending upon the ingenuity of 
i ^ the facil ly vuu mi J be 

Hj, using to do this. One 
essential piece of equip 
ment you will need to do this is a 
genlock, which funnily enough, you 
could win in this month's competiti 
>n on page 14. 

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locks. The more expensive they are the belter they are \\ the 
general rule where genlocks are concerned. 

As a general example ot the kind of procedure involved in 
using Amiga animation in a broadcast context, 1 recently 
ui*d the Amiga to produce a short sequence for an MTV 
tastf 

Starting with some traditional animation, this was digi- 
tised and saved as hires DPaint files. Once in DPaint the ani- 
matfon was treated in various ways and then saved to ftopp) 
disk 

The com pit' i' [Ion frames were then trans! e 

onto High band U Malic tape as a series of stills, which wer-e 
subsequently taken into Quantel Paintbox for compositing 
ut a much iiiiiher resolution than the Amiga, before finally 
being transferred to Bctacam SP tape via a LaserP 

This is (H 'V possible routes you could take to get 

your animation out of th>. afl .'f the above seems a 

little too complex you could always stick to using DPaint 
and saving short animations to disk for playback on other 
peoples" computers, 0* alu-r natively wait until CD video 
takes utt a- it will and take ■' of its high quality 

and interactiveness ... 



Interesting animations have as much to do 
with timing as anything else, 

Following the above very basic outfinE, 
things wouki certainly move, hut in a very 
linear and even manner - if everything 
moved fike this it would be very dull. 

Two additional and very useful func- 
tions exist within the Move requester. Ease 
In and Ease Out enable you to enter what 
are called Cushioning or Fairing values to 
an animation over a period of frames 
which you define numerically. 

Objects in the real world accelerate and 
decelerate, and this speeding up and 
slowing down can help to lend weight to 
a move, as well as reducing the effects ol 
strobing, when objects move too fast. 

Interestingty, they can also be used m 
conjunction with the angle values in the j 
Move requester to cushion 3D rotations, 
as well as moves along any of the axis. 

Form and motion 

The point of the animation was, in part 
to suggest that you can enhance an inter- 
esting image with movement, and thai 
very often if the image is interest - : 
enough, you can get away with ,■ 
basic motion. 

Conversely, a very simple, bland shape 
could be given enormous character by 
virtue of the way it is made lo move. 

A drawback of animation on the Amig 
is memory, so it's always a good idea 
see how to work around such cons I 
economically, and still arrive at intei 
solutions. 

In writing this article, I have deliber- 
ately avoided some of the finer points d 
the DPaint software, like the use i 
Function Keys 1 to 4, which enable framej 
by-frame advancement of (he an i mat.:-, 
playback and, in the case of the 3 K*», 
advancing to any frame in the animation, 
since most users of DPaint shoe 
familiar with them. 

DPaint is a versatile package for pro 
during 2D animations on the Arnica 1 
get the best out of it you need a ;;- 
memory and speed, as is the case 
most graphics applications, which are 
memory intensive, So raid 
that digital piggy- bank, Mow! 



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On this month's Disk you will 
find the result of two years' 
work, 2,sOO hours of program- 
ming and over 2,9 million byt-es of code - 
fan Martin's SJD2. 
)ust stop and think for a moment 
w*»t it is we're giving away free, 
tciil the now much, maligned sfwe- 
! principle which states that an author 
not suffer for his or her honesty, 
» rewarded for a great rira I of work, 
SH52 is a shareware product, and its 
registration fee is a suggested USS25 
{about £15), The unregistered version of 
SID2 you now own is identical in all 
respects to the registered version except 
that it will not allow you to save out your 
pitlcrrnrn 

As the program is one of the most con- 
•<jjrable ever designed, and as tailoring it 
o your particular needs is half its power, 
you should by now be scribbling out 
-*>ose US money order* and posting them 
mm Martin^ whose address can be 





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lound in the on-disk docu- 
ments or by selecting the informa- 
tion option on SIDi's Program menu. 

On with the show! Your first job as a 
SID user is to decide which version is best 
for you. There are three on the CoverDisk 
- one each for Workbench 1.1 and 2.04, 
and SID2 Personal for users of hall 
megabyte machines, Select the SID of 
your choice from the Shortcut menu and 
away you go. 

Standard layout 

When the program has loaded, you will 
sec the by now standard layout for a 
directory utility, including a title bar, two 
large listing windows, and several rows of 
command buttons at the bottom. 

Owners dI most directory utilities, espe- 
cially those used to SID 1.06, will be 
instantly comfortable wftii this screen and 
will need no further introduction, espe- 
cially as there's 200k ol online help files to 
keep you going. 

For those of you who've never used 
such a program, I'll run through a general 
outline before we launch into a blow-by- 
btow look at SID2's features. 

Take a long look at the screen and try 
to familiarise yourself with the layout, pay- 
ing particular attention to the command 
buttons below the two main windows. 

These are almost all dedicated to 
actions which will only work on selected 



Martin's SID 
version 2 has been 
the most eagerly 
anticipated piece of 
Amiga shareware for the last two years, and 
now it's here exclusively on this month's 
Amiga Computing CoverDisk 






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5 blocks 






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files, none of which you will have at the 
moment, as you haven't yet loaded a 
directory listing. 

To do this, click on the button on the 

top row - just below the directory window 
- marked DFO, and a listing of the root 
directory of your CoverDisk should appear 



Backtround 



MD KM,,. 

Kane 



(list DA MehUi 



DLTRIILT | K FRUIT 

Entry Select ton 

ALL - select ill entries 

BYBITS - select entries by protection bits 

8YDATE - select entries by date 

BYDESC - select entries by description 

MIME - select entries by nane 



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Oft* fi-lr Alt or ietett Prtti to edit any hinmn vtut mtt 



Creole four iwn cuinira memn From HtU'l Bfweriui Preli mean 



after a bit ot disk whirring. The top halt of 
the Hit will be in orange and the bottom 
half in white, which is the colour setting 
used with dut configuration to denote the 
difference between directories and single 
files, 

If you want to pop into a directory lor a 
quick nose around, just double click on it 
and the display will change to the direc- 
tory contents. 

To move back out of the directory, 
move the mouse pointer to the outside 
edge of the window as far as it will go., 
click the left mouse button, and the par- 
ent directory will appear. 

lumping straight to the directory of 
your choice is even easier. Look along the 
top row of buttons until you see one 
marked VOL, and click on it with the left 
button. This is the volumes button and 
will list all the legitimate volumes your 
CoverDisk contains along with any aliases 
set up since the disk booted. 

At the moment, you'll see just C, 
DEVfc, FONTS:, L:, LIES:, 5;, and T:, and 



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Line Help 



The PROTECT connand 
protection bits for 
directory one entry 
protection bits for 
once, use the SET connand, 



button sets the 
each selected file and 
at a tine. To set the 
alii selected entries at 



The fimga naintains eight protection bits: 
Hidden, Script, Pure, Archived, Readable, 
Writable, Delegable, Executable. 






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the names of any disks presently in your 
drives. 

To go to the 5: directory without hav- 
ing to first click on DFO, just double click 
an the Sr listed in yaur window. 

Note lhal you can jump back to the 
parent directory from a volume in the 
usual manner - an improvement over SID 
1.06, which wouldn't know where lo go if 
you had originally dived in through the 



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volumes button. While we're in the 5; 
directory, let's examine the CoverDisk 

startup-sequence to see what it looks like. 
You might think this is a job for Shell qr 
CLI, but with 5JD all you have to do is 
double click on the file - so do it now. 

What happens is that 3 10 looks in C: for 
the MMPP tent reader, which we've told it 
to do through the QuickPrefs program, 
then loads it along with the text file 
you've double clicked on, Press the Escape 



Enter file filter: 



The personal touch 

WFth at) its help files, doc files, and so on. 5102 can take up the best part of a 
ftoppy, so you might be thinking what use Is lhal to someone like me who 
uses a single or dual Noppy system?' Never fear, SID2 Personal Is here 

SID2 Personal is a cut down version o! SID withoui the Load and Edit Prefs 
option which runs In 51 2k and takes up a lot less space on your floppy. We 
might have to distribute SID2 with all the related HeJp and Doc files, but 
there's nothing to stop users scrubbing them from their own system disk 
once they've mastered the use of the program. 

Having disposed or the 200k help file and the docs, a crunched SID2 
Personal will leave plenty of room on your Workbench disk for programs of 
your own. 

The procedure for selling up SID2 Personal on a fresh disk is fairly 
Straightforward. |ust boot up SIQ and use it lo copy the following files to 
your new disk: 



SID2 Personal 
SlD2-Personal 
SI 02- Personal, info 

Qukkprefs 
Quickprefs.infn 



Now make sun? you copy ICONX to the C; directory of the new disk - if il's 
not already there and all the 5ID2 Prefs files found in the 5: directory of 
your CoverDlsk. 

If you don't want the help (lies and doc files, that's it, but please remem- 
ber that If you give a copy of 5ID2 to a friend you should always pass on the 
full doc, distribution, and help files. 



key lor now to get out of MMPP and dou- 
ble click on the tile SID2.config. Unlike the 
teat file we've just looked at this is a 
binary lile, which SID recognises as such 
and Just pops up an information panel 
with details on the file's size, datestamp, 
protection Hags, and so on. 

If there was a he* editor in your 
CoverDisk C: directory, you could click 
once on a binary file then on XEDIT to 
examine a fife's hex listing, There wasn't 



enough room on Ihe CoverDisk to 
squeeze in many of the utility prog rami 
you'd normally want to control through 
SID2, but if you register with Timm Marti 
you will receive the fully configurable ver- 
sion and can then set rt up to use the pro- 
grams at your disposal, 

Utilities such as PPShow, for viewing 
normal and crunched IFF files, the 
NewZap hex editor, QED text editor, and 



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The competition 

Since the release of the original SID, the number 
and variety of directory utilities available for the 
Amiga has gone through the roof. 

Most of these followed the general SID layout 
and attempted with varying degrees of success to 
accomplish the same tasks, but until recently none 
of them could oust SID vl.06 from its spot al the 
top of the heap. 

TDM, as distributed on a recent Amiga 
Computing CoverDisk, was the first shareware 
release to beat SID vl.06 on functionality, pn 
tation and ease of use, and Directory Opus from 
INOVAlronics [a commercial release) was the first 
to go one up on power, though it became a virtual 
SID clone In order to do this. The release of SID2 
has put paid to most of this competition. 

No other directory utility has the range ol hi 
lures and the complete configurability of 5JD2. and 
none is easier lo use. Expect SID2 to become a star 
performer In the collections of most decent share. 
ware and PD libraries over the next few months. 
but remember lhal this excellent utility made its 
European debut exclusively on the best Amiga 
CoverDisk In the business. 






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Timm has made the new user's job 
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II you are confused about the I unc- 
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panel will appear with a full description 
of the item in question, 

Thr feature can't be too strongly 
emphasised far the first time user, and 
to give yourself a full guided tour ol 
SID2 conducted by the author of him- 
self, I'd recommend you hold down the 
Ctrl key and click on everything in 
sight. After ten minutes you'll be well 
on your way to becoming a SID2 expert 
user. 

Configuration 

Now lor the fun bit. Configuring SID 
has always been the route towards 
complete system harmony and the sort 
of warm inner glow previously only 
available after a rousing bowl of certain 
breakfast cereals, but with 5102 it has 
assumed Zen-like proportions. 

Tailoring SID to seamlessly interact 
with your existing system has never 
been easier or more completely possi- 
ble, though il you only have a 512k 
machine and are using StD2 Personal, 
you'll be unable to charge any 
Preferences settings. 

The rest ol tis should by now be 
holding down the right mouse button 
and selecting Edit Prefs from the pro- 
gram menu. You should see seven sub 
items, one each for Buttons, Colours, 
Configuration, Fonts, Layouts, Menus, 
and Path. 

The topmost selection - End - will 
linish your Prefs editing session. To 
begin with, we'll make a few simple 
changes to the colour scheme, so select 
Colours and release the right mouse 
button. 

At first it would appear that nothing 
his happened, but il you look at the 
message strip right at the bottom of the 
SID screen, you'll be told to "check out 



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No two copies of SID2 need ever be alike once the 
user has fiddled with the Prefs setting. 



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Configuring SID2 

As there ar* SO many configuration opttom OfMffl to the user. It rW% is 
ymu own personal t«t« end ntods as to how unique /our own copy ol SID 
becomes. By way ol a f*W pointers, however, hm'l a rundown ol the most 1 
Prefs options. 

• Buttons The two button banks contained In the release version ol SIL 
,, Inlable by clicking with the right mouse button anywhere in the button \m 
...niL.iin many buttoro whose function* you may never hm 1 . 
Setting up /out own buttons or swapping and dunging those already defined 
easy |uK setecl the Edil Prels- Buttons menu option Mid the comprehensive bun 

1 1 III 1 U pops Lip. 

Try the Swap and Move lunctions to still with These can be handy to rlush 
your labourite buttons in (MM part of the bank or to move the itsset US#d butt 

M„. in,t„mi row. in jiJd extra emphasis, try dunging the colour ol the vit.il b 



• Custom menus - Selecting the Edit Pltfs/MefHK option yon can add yttut 9 
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the menus'", so hold down the right 
mouse button once more and you'll see 
that there's now an extra menu entitled 
Colours 

This menu has a long list of options for 
exactly which parts of the SID environ- 
ment you'd like to tweak for colour co- 
ordination, so choose one at random. 

No matter which, one you choose, a 
palette requester will pop up with the vari- 
ous background, text, and menu colours 




you can choose, a sample of your choices 
in the middle, and the standard colour 
boxes with palette sliders on the fight- 
band side. 

As the SID on your CoverDisk has been 
configured to open on a Workbench 



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II you ensure your program is as compatible as pos- 
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rather than a custom screen, the colour 
sliders won't work, but you can always 
change the preferences to make SID open 
on its own screen with its own distinct 
colours il you feel the need. 

Remember that unless you register with 
Tirnm Martin, any changes you make wilF 
be tost when you turn oil your Amiga, 

Quit out of this section after making 
your changes then choose the Edit 
Prels/Buttons item to bring up probably 
the most powerful and flexible part of 
SID2, 

Customisation 

You may have noticed that by clicking 
with the right mouse button anywhere in 
the button bank you toggle to a second 
bank of buttons with mm available com- 
mands. 

What you may not have realised is that 
you can design as many different button 
banks as you like or swap and change the 
existing banks to put all your favourite 
commands and actions in the same place. 

Most of this complex section is 
explained in a straightforward way using, 
the Help function, but for confused users 
we'll take a quick stroll through some of 
the features, 

The first panel you'll see is the bank 
control panel, offering various options to 
insert a complete bank, delete or edit the 
current bank, or move, copy, swap, and 
edit individual buttons. 

To begin with a single button, click on 
Swap then on the first and second buttons 
in the bank that you'd like to swap posi- 
tions. 

Now try Move, and you'll notice that 
when the operation is complete you have 
a blank spate when? the button used to 
be before you moved it. To gel to the 
really sticky hits, click on Edit then on this 
blank button. 

A much more involved panel will 
appear in front of the Bank Control Panel 
which enables the user to specify exactly 
what a button is called and what it does 
when clicked on. In the middle of the 



ItDJimoin 
Him In cittiam 
16 colour mode 



panel is a scrolling list of internal SID com- 
mands which can be attached to the but- 
ton, and above this is the usual 

colour/test editing section, 

After naming your button and choos- 
ing its colours, hold down the Ctrl key 
and click once on the scrolling list of com- 
mands to summon SID'S online help. 

Probably the best way to find out 
about each function is to assign it to a 
blank button, elkfc on OK until the button 
appears in your button bank, then click 
on the new button with the Ctrl key held 
down. 

The Help File will tell you as much as 
you need to know about the function 
you've assigned to the button, and if you 
decide it doesn't do what you wanted it 
to, ycHi can always edit it again. 

Note that once you're back in the main 
SID screen, you can edit a button by sim- 
ply clicking on it while holding down the 
left Alt key. This produces the button edit- 
ing panel, and holding down the right All 
while clicking on a button will enable you 
to set the button's keyboard short-cut. 

Experimenting 

We have, of course, merely scratched 
the surface as far as SID configuration 
goes. The program can be used as a sim- 

pte directory utility of can be totally con- 
figured to virtually run your hard drive for 
you - the choke of how far to go is youn, 

Only by experimenting and messing 
about with all the preferences settings can 
you fully understand how powerful a too) 
SID can be, and as the Preferences set 
tings will not be saved out in this unregis- 
tered version, you can happily play away 
safe in the knowledge that your SID copy 
will not be corrupted or permanently 
messed up by tinkering. 

If you reach a configuration you are 
happy with, including custom buttons, a 
16-cofrjur screen, and all the rest, just 
send your registration fee to Timm Martin 
and gel your paws on the registered vt r 
sion to make those changes 
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ou know, it never occurred 
to me until now to get a 
spreadsheet program 
Life's too shod to start messing 
around with cellular calculation 
engines, right? 

But dlai, there comes a time 
when every man muil come to the 
aid of the party, and besides I drew 
the short straw., which meant I had 
to look at these thing* if I liked it or 
not. I'm a professional, I'll rise 
above it. 

Attfr getting all the programs in 
the post, the first thing that struck 
me was the lurid packaging that 
moil ot the companies had chosen 
for what Is, let it be said, a boring 
but necessary product. 

"OK, so It's boring inside, but 
check oot the wrapper, dude!" they 
seem to say. The second thing 
which caught me completely by sur 
prise was, In fact, how interesting a 
spreadsheet is when it's powerful 
and easy Id operate. 

In case you've had your head in a 
bucket of cement for the iast ten 
years, spreadsheets are the com- 
puter equivalent of the kind of 
account* books you see in WH 
Smiths, where you fill In all your fig- 
ures and miraculously reach ft grand 
total. 

Easy, right? Wrong. What hap- 
pens if you write a figure incor 
redly or add up the same number 
twice? Vou have to rub out all the 
figures that this affects, and add 
them up again. This paper and pen 
Cil approach slowed down the 
progress of accounting Tor cen- 
turies, and still does in certain quar- 
ters. 

Now we have spreadsheets, 
which lake your accounts onto a 
grid on the screen, and this time 
when you change a figure all the 
others relating to that figure 
change automatically, like a lot of 
little numerical dominoes falling 
over. 

Each figure on the grid is said to 
be inside a "ceil", and inside that 
celt you can have a number or even 
an invisible calculation which is 
applied to other cells, the answer 
befog printed in the current cell, 

It's very neat, and even if you 
think you don't like this sort of 
thing, it tan be .ilmml as addictive 
as a game. A fairly mathematical 
and pointless game, but a game 
nonetheless. 

Let's line up the contenders and 
see what they've got. A surprising 
turn-out for this match, with most 
offering some kind of presentation 
graphics, and no discernible bugs In 
any of them, at least for the test 
period. 



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Part-time number cruncher 
and lumberjack Phil South 
checks out the best in the 

exciting world of 
spreadsheet programs. It's a 
man's world, accountancy... 



KSpread 4 

Kuma • £105.75 

This is the big one. I knew this before l 
even clapped eyes on it, as everyone I 
'spoke to about spreadsheets asked if I'd 
seen it. 

They all said the same thing: "Well, 
that's the one." So what did Kuma do to 
this program to get it such a stonking good 
reputation? 

Well, they loaded it down with tenures 
for a start. The first thing you notice when 
you open the box is the size and weight of 
the huge, baffling manual. Sure it's nicely 
presented, but not as nice as the manual 
for a product like Wordworth, for example. 

OK, so it's not siickly produced, but all 
the information is there if you need it. And 
you will. 

When you first start the program - 
remembering to run the Install program 
first, to install the tiny fonts that the spread- 
sheet uses - you get a feeling for its power 
right sway. 

When you start the system you see that 
KSpread has its own desktop, icons for the 
various menu items are arrayed along the 
side, and menus are along the top title 
bar. Buttons for regularly used functions 
are in a row along the top, and the 
spreadsheet grid sits there blinking its cur- 



cells 



sor, waiting for your numbers to crunch. 
You can reorganise the desktop to suit 
you, and after you've done it you can save 

the results so your default setup will 
always pop up when you boot the pro- 
gram. 

One thing you will notice straight 
away, if you have ever used the Atari ST, 
is that the alerts and graphics bear a strik- 
ing resemblance to the STs Desktop, and 
there's a sound reason for this. The pro- 
gram was clearly designed on an Atari and 
ported over, Hut don't be put off by this. 

The impression of latent power isn't 
diminished when you start pulling down 
menus and pushing buttons. You can tap 
the cursor keys or click on the right cell 
using the mouse, and you can also select a 
range by holding the mouse button and 
moving the mouse down or across a 
required range of cells. 

Almost all the functions are duplicated in 



buttons and menus, from toggling abso- 
lute/relative to loading a new spreadsheet. 

KS4 also has some very useful tricks tip 
its sleeve, like the ability to toad in Ascii files 
as data. So if you have a file like this: 



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sheet, and it's just spoofed in as it comes - 
the word "data" will be in cell AO, the 
number 465,99 in ceil 60, "data 2" in cell 
Al and so on. 

Once the strings have been ioaded, they 
are parsed by the program to interpret 
them as labels or numbers. This is a good 
way of importing data from non-compati- 
ble systems, as simple Ascii dumps of the 
data. 

KSpread has too many features to men- 
tion here, but suffice to say it's the king of 
the heap. Its database functions and exten- 
sive import and export routines to Lotus I- 
2 -J, Data Interchange Format (DIF) and 
DGCalc - from but not to in the latter case 
- ensure that it would be just as at home in 
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DGCak 

Digita • £39.99 

OlM ipI I he alder prod Ltd 5, but still sells well. Enough features to 
be lure, but noj 50 many you actMentily llrink you're running a 
rijUy 1041 notch, stale of theart system, or anything like thai. 

Ihiv prog.ra.nl looks as though it was written In compiled 
which I suspect it was. This doesn't mean it's rubbish, as 
it's a perlMlry good spreadsheet, although a littk> limiltil tnd 
i.nkimj anything that might be described as o unique feature. 

But il don the bask job of crunching numbers very well with. 
lew icrewups, 

The program opens a window on your Workbench, and cell 
selection is via the cur 
tor keys or the mouse. 
There are no Amiga 
menus, and menu 
(elections arc made, 
PC-style, using a sort 
i'f duck shoot along 
the top of the DGCak 
window. 

The program is 
relmed to as DGCak 
in Hie (lues and the 
kaging, but 

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The manual li slim but intormative r and one of the lew 
Items reviewed here which had 1 lull glossary of terms for 
novice spread users, A comprehensive into Hal tec t ion takes 
you through the first spreadsheet, 

It s limited by the number of calculations It can do at Once, 
but then it is an old product, and a cheap way into spread- 
sheeting. 

I'm tdd by Digita that, in line with its spanking new prod- 
uct range like the best selling Wordworlh 1.1 and Home 
Accounts 2, there will be .1 new product whkh will supersede 
DGCak in the very near future. Watch that space, as this new 
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KSpread 2 

Kuma • £63.45 

An elder version of the former, and so a 
sort of younger brother of KSpread 4. KS1 

w» too elementary, KS3 was just a step- 
ping stone to KSA. Bui KS2 still sells well 
as a low-end solution to the problem of 
crunching any numbers you want 
crunched. 

You can tell it's a less-than-young 
product when you check out the manual. 
It's typewritten, as opposed to the laser- 



printed KS4 manual. Kuma have pub- 
lished a few books since KS2. and this 
shows in their presentation. 

As a program, I'd say it forms a bridge 
between elderly products like DGCak and 
more muscular modern products like 
KSpread 4 and ProCalc. It has some of the 
functionality and power of KS4, but with 
the simplicity of interface and cheapness 
erf good old DC KS2 is definitefy better 
than DG though, and I'd always back K52 
from a standing start. 

The program only imports and exports 
in its own format and DIF, which is a bit 



restricting, but at this end of the market 
you can't really complain about such 
things too loudly, or you'll be accused of 
being a cheapskate. 

Features cost money, and if you want 
the full monty you'll have to shell out for 
something like ProCalc or K54! 

KSpread 2 might be down the pile a 
bit perfection-wise, but this doesn't mean 
it lacks redeeming features of its own, I 
partjcularry liked the way you can cut and 
paste whole 2D sections of the spread- 
sheet simply by highlighting a bo* shape 
with the mouse and repositioning the 
section elsewhere, 

All the formulae re-jig themselves to 
match the new arrangement, and it's all 
automatic. There are two versions on the 
disk, one with graphics and one without 
- obviously rf graphics aren't needed, you 
can opt to squander the memory on 
something frivolous, like a few bits of 
data. 

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Gold Disk • £129.96 

One of the glitzier spreads, with the kind of 
features and good looks you'd expect on a 
Gold Disk product, features a unique ability 
In render your sprcadsherl in various fonts 
and sizes for emphasis of a certain point. 

PostScript output is available if you hawe 
a compatible printer, and being a Gold Disk 
product you have the ability to save your 
graphs to disk as ProDraw 2,0 clip art. 

This means that you can produce a pre- 
sentation as iFFs tor the screen, and pro- 
duce similar graphics for a document to 
accompany your demonstration. 

The manual is a very nice piece of DTP, 
as you would expect from the makers of 
one of the best DTP programs on the 
Amiga, and ranks up there with the EA and 
Digita manuals for slick presentation and 
good layout. 

The words look nice, but they also mean 




something too, which is all to the good. 

Another nice touch is the control panel 
arrangement across the top of each sheet, 
giving you access to different fonts and 
sizes, and the ability to alter and arrange 
your spreadsheet as if it were a wordpro- 
cessing document, which to a certain 
extent in ProCalc it is. 

The range of graphs you can create is 
the most extensive of all the programs I 
tried, and it's this that makes it my personal 
favourite, Not only can you create graphs 
for your data, but you can try a number of 
different types, too. 

It's not unlike having Peter Snow sitting 
by your side with the Newsnlght computer 
whizzing up swings to the left and ngiit tis 
your data changes, Professional is the word, 
and apart from KSpread 4 there's not much 
to touch it for professionalism and graphics, 



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Amiga Computing June I992 dj 



Spreadsheets 



Advantage 

Gold Disk • £86.91 



The previous opus from Gold Disk on which 
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obviously less flash and less W&2.0 looktng. 

Ahhough now superseded by ProCalc, it's 
still available and lor less money loo, so U 
might be a. good idea if you lack the neces- 
sary funds to run to ProCalc, but you want 
some of the features. 

It reads and writes 1 -2-1, and like all the 
other American products, has an ARexx part, 
although quite why i'm not really sure. 

OK, so you can whizz data from one pro- 
gram to another, but the programs have to 
be compatible or it all goes horribly wrong. 
Cold Disk product have no trouble with this, 
but as to* others - you'll have to suck it and 
see what happens. 

Just a smaller version Df ProCak then, and 
in the charts l r d say it ranks in front of 
KSpread 2 but behind it's big brother, 




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The Works 

MSS • £78,91 

This integrated package is getting a bit long in the tooth now, but still has something to offer. 
Although taken as a part of a very comprehensive integrated suite of programs, no single pro- 
gram is that bad. 

Taken in isolation, the spreadsheet module is pretty ordinary, on a par with the integrated 
spread you get with an Atari Portfolio. Although it does alt the usual stuff you'd expect, having 
read up on the others in the marketplace, it lacks a certain lustre or spark ol originality. 

Ifi black-and-white for a start, and although it features a choice of graphics, it can't match 
the performance or something like KSpread 2. Divide the cost of the program up into the price 
per component, and you get £16 each proorjin _ 

which is about what Word Spreadsheet is worth. t * 4e ' ° USe 
Why buy five indifferent programs when you can I 
buy one realry good one? Graphics 




Compatibility 

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Conclusion 




By far the best program, even in the eyes of some of the people who sell the others, is 
KSpread 4 by Kuma Computers. It has the biggest range of features, and is compatible with 
more- programs than any of the others. 

Anyone who expects to make much of an impression on the Amiga spreadsheet market 
had better be sure that their idea has all these features and more, or they stand no chance. 

Although KSpread 4 was undoubtedly the winner from the sheer weight of features, my 
own personal choice would be Professional Calc, lor its 1-2-3 read/write ability and the 
option of being able to export graphs to ProPage in ProDraw dip format. 

So if you want the best, choose Kuma's K$4. But if you just want a little pocketable piece 
of personal protection, ProCalc is your man. 

Many ihanla to Precision, HB Marketing, Kuma and Dkpn for supptyinq the products reviewed in 
tflts article. 





Jar 


gon buster 


Absolute 


A formula placed somewhere else In the spreadsheet stays 
the same. 11 the same formula was copied relatively, the 
cell references within the formula would change to fit the 
new ceil. 


Asctf 


American Standard Code for Information Interchange 
Special codes for text characters which do not differ 
between computers. 


C.-ll 


The intersection of a column and row in a spreadsheet, 
normally referred to by a letter and number depicting the 
row and column in question, ie AT , F4 or Z26. This 
' numbering system is called the cell reference. ■ 


Column 


Vertical arrangement of cells in a spreadsheet program. 


Command -driven 


Commands are entered from the keyboard rather than 
selected Irem a menu. 


Formulae 


These are mathematical expressions on which the program 
bases its calculations, The variables in these calculations, 
like computer program variables, are the cell references In 
the spreadsheet. 

For example: M * C5. This takes the number in cell 
&4 and multiplies it by the number in C5. The result is 
printed in the cell containing the formula. So you 
could say a formula in a cell was a way of calculating 
what is to appear in that cell. 


Justification 


The data in any cell in a spreadsheet can be justified like 
text in a wordprocessor, so the figure can appear on the 
left-, centre or right-hand side of a cell- 


Password protection 


Sometimes your spreadsheet information is private or even 
confidential, like salaries or tax. In these circumstances you 
need to restrict acceis to the program to authorised 



Text overflow 



personnel only. 

You do this by only allowing access to persons who know 
the password, It's unlikely this will be a problem in the 
home, but if your computer is in an office all the time, you 
may want this feature to protect your data. 

A way of setting all the values between two cells, Some 
spreads do it like this: 

A1..H 

meaning all the Cells from Al to AS, and others like this: 

UU5 

either way, it means the same. This is just a shorthand way 
of applying a formula to a range of cells at once. 

The horizontal cells in a spreadsheet. 

Some spreads have a scrolling ability, so when you push the 
cursor to the edge of the screen, more of the sheet is revealed. 

A feature common to a lot of sheets, where the text label 
may overlap the cell it's in regardless, but in some you 
don't have this - or even variable cell widths a I all - so you 
have to place haff the word in each cell. 

Some spreads even have an Undo function, which is good 
for people who spend their whole computing lite saying 
"No, that's not what I meant, stop!" to their computers. 



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OTF war, ProPage 3.0, which concentrates, 
nAc version 2,1, on new features father 
tfwn bug fixes. A quick glance at these tea- 
toe ts enough to tell you that Gold Disk 
-are gone straight for the power user's 
ugular. 

The most significant improvement has 
to be the comprehensive Aftexx support 
•nich, given its 330-odd commands, offers 
complete control of ProPage from ARexx. 

fetter still, in order to get the most from 
*fiexx, the program uses what it calls 
"getiies" - really just ARexx. scripts - which 
are directly accessible Iron ProPage at the 
cfck of a button. 

When you boat ProPage 3.0, you'll Find 
fut the mop tool has been replaced by an 
^addin's lamp button, which brings up the 
genie requester (corny!) when clicked an, 



Tweaking 



There are over SO function genies 
*-»ady defined, ranging from the simple 
• '.dpi <"ind similar text effects, to box 
attribute control and even an ADPro 
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r ADPro and. automatic re-importation of 
7* graphic once it has been tweaked. 

As ARexK is being used by more and 
■ore programs, the genie feature makes 
ProPage 3,0 a much more powerful tool, 
and gives the AFtexx-conversam user the 
apportunily to write macros for virtually 
tvery situation. 

My one complaint about genies is that 
?*re is no auto-record Function. When you 
cfck on the Define button, ProPage simply 
cads up the Article Editor and expects you 
Id write your own macro. 

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ARexx or who have the patience to learn to 

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if you're copying a complete set of 
PostScript fonts across to your 
Compugraphic drawer. 

Nevertheless, its inclusion gives ProPage 
access to the hundreds of Adobe Type 1 
fonts available and, as typefaces are the 
bread and butter of DTP, this has come not 
a moment too soon. Nine Compugraphic 
fonts, including Caslon and Uncial, are now 
supplied with the package, so most users 
will have enough to get started with. 

Another feature which will be music to 
the ears of existing ProPage users is the 
irreguiar text flow option. Using this, text 
can be made to flow round the outline ot 
any structured drawing rather than its box, 
as was previously the case. Unfortunately, 
although Cold Disk have at last seen the 
light on this one, they have failed to imple- 
ment it property. 

Text can flow around the left or right of 
an object, but not both, so it is still impossi- 
ble to have a circular hole in your text 
unless it is at the juncture of two columns 
and you create an ellipse either side of the 
gutter, I have to admit la shrieking with 
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PraOraw 3.0 (due lor release later this year) 
is easily the most attractive to users with a 
lot of clip art or other structured drawing in 
their pages. The user need only click on the 
box containing the ProDraw clip, select the 
ProDraw option, and ProDraw is loaded 
with the clip ready to be edited 

In combination' with ProDraw 3,-Q's new 
Fountain Fill option, which will allow full- 
page gradients, the hotlink adds a great 
deal of functionality to ProPage, saving a 
lot of time and hassle if you use ProDraw 
clips. 

Text filters 

With the new auto-tiling print option, a 

long- needed Undo feature, text filters for 
most American [not British) word proces- 
sors, and a few tweaks ta the colour separa- 
tion process, ProPage 3.0 will be far and 
away the most welcome disk to have 
dropped through the letter boxes of regis- 
tered users. There are still areas in need of 
improvement, but Cold Disk have done a 
fine job in boosting the package the way 
they have. 

Want to know if it's better than the rest? 
Then buy the next issue of Amiga 
Computing and read our three-way battle of 
the DTP giants. ProPage 3,0, PageStream 
2.2 and Saxon Publisher 1 .2 will all be 
fighting it out for the DTP Lonsdale belt, so 
for all you fight - and font - fans out there, 
it should be Unmissable. 

Imagine 2.0 

Impulse Inc of Minnesota, USA have just 
released a major upgrade to their flagship 
3D rendering and animation program, 
Imagine. This comprises of revisions and 
improvements to all sections of the pack- 
age as well as a new version 2.0 look to the 
interface. Together these constitute a sig- 
nificant improvement in the power and 
functionality of this already impressive soft- 
ware. 

One of the most striking aspects of the 
new version of Imagine is the configurabil- 
ity of the interface as a whole, This has 
been achieved; through the introduction of 
a Preferences page which is accessible Irom 
any at the other modules. 

Previously the user had to access 
Imagine's all-important config file through 
the CU but now you can set up all prefer- 
ences from within the program, In addition 
to this, each editor can have its menu 
options assigned to any one of the function 
keys of the Amiga keyboard or create spe- 
cial Unix-style "buttons" along the bottom 
ot the workscreens to perform these tasks. 

This means that you can set up the pro- 
gram in such a way that you need hardly 
ever touch the keyboard or access the 
menu bar. A double bfessing, as not only 
does it speed up user interaction, but it 
avoids the eye straining and totally super- 
fluous drop shadow Fonts found in the 
menus. 

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silkier feel and users will find themselves 
flying around the various modules in cre- 
ating their animations and renders. The 
manual, though greatly improved,, still 
has its shortcomings, but at least is an 
improvement on Impulse's previously 
lamentable efforts. 

The 300-page volume contains refer- 
ence and tutorial material on all aspects 
and applications, presented in a reason- 
ably clear if badly structured manner. 
Not content with ably instructing the 
user about the program, it also offers a 
mare than generous helping of Impulse 
Inc's unique in-house philosophy. 

As far as functionality and potential 
goes, this upgrade places Imagine firmly 



it the top of the 3D tree and confirms it 
as a tremendously powerful and enjoy- 
able program to use. However it is seri- 
ously flawed in its rendering by Impulse's 
persistence in employing an extremely 
crude form of anti-aliasing. 

Text animation, for instance, is ruined 
by this shortcoming, even in 24-bit 
colour, For it to be considered as a pro- 
fessional product this oversight must be 
addressed as quickly as possible. This 
(major) gripe aside, Impulse deserve all 
credit for developing this superb new 
version. 

For details on Imagine 2.0, phone 
Impulse I neon (01 01), 612 566 0221, or 
Applied Vector marketing on 081-977 
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Imagines new features 



• The Forms Editor - This has seen substantial 
rewriting and what was a rather baffling inclusion in 
Imagine 1 ,0 has become a powerful method of cre- 
ating complex organic shapes. It does this through a 
process involving "key slices" and while it demands a 
great deal of application in the learning stages it 
offers a degree ol modelling control found nowhere 
else on the Amiga. 

• The Cycle Editor - This module, where animation 
sequences such as walking can be prepared, now 
offers the great potential of morphing between 
shapes, 

Unfortunately, however, these new features do 
not work as they are described in the manual. This is 
a great pity as they would be an extremely powerful 
facility to have. 

• The Detail Editor - The main modelling page 
now offers true bump mapping, reflective diffusion 
to prevent pixelisation when using reflectance maps 
on flat surfaces, soft and hard edge control to avoid 
the "bulging" associated with phong shading on 
acute angles, fog objects which fade out at their 
edges and a host of new procedural textures such as 
water effects and even leopard spots! Spline paths 



can now be edited within this editor and used by the 
Mold (sic) 1 unction to extrude and replicate outlines,. 
Another handy feature is the ability to perform a 
"quickrender". 

This is a full-colour preview within the editor using a 
toad light source for speed and it obviates the need to 
set up an entire project in order to view your models. 
This functon is found in aH editors allowing previewing 
at all stages before commitment to a final render. 

• The Stage Editor - This is where models, lights and 
paths are combined to make up animation sequences. 
Apart from making the snapshot (unction work, the 
main change to this section is that it is now separated 
from the Action Editor. 

* The Action Editor - This scripting page now allows 

rendering over background pictures, and the use of 
two ol Imagine's unique special effects, such as ripples 
and explosions, at once. With Control of background 
fog you can eliminate distracting detail from scenes 
and simulate depth of field effects- 
Background frames and reflectance maps can be 
indexed to allow digital layering of animations within 
your computer to create infinitely complex sequences 
without any degeneration between passes. 



...to the tull glory tf a 2* hit remhr 

Workbench 
2.10 

Before you all scream "but they've just 
released 2.04!", I'd better tell you that 
we've laid our sticky hands on an early 
developer's copy ol Workbench 2.10, and 
Commodore are unlikely to officially 
update Workbench until at least the end of 
the year. 

Having said that, the improvements 
offered by the new system are enough to 
make the mouth water even at this eady 
stage in its development. 

The most annoying bug for single 
floppy users of Workbench 2,04 has been 
the Format command's insistence on being 
very stupid. When a 
floppy is formatted, even 
if fresh and write 
enabled, the Amiga 
insists on complaining 
that it is write protected. 
You can get round this 
by clicking on Retry, but 
in 2.10 the bug has been 
removed. 

If s loo eady yet to 
look at the other bug 
fines, especially as 
Commodore can supply 
no documentation for 
Workbench 2.10, so I'll 
concentrate instead on 
the new features. 

The most obvious 
enhancements can be 
found in the preferences 
drawer, These are 
Sound, Locale, PrinterPS, 
and CrossDOS. 

Sound is a program 
to enable the user to 
attach the sound sample 
of his or her choice to an 
alert, which means every 
time you do something 



stupid you can have you Amiga be r 
beep, or fart at you. This at first is 
fun, but after a while you get the fee- 
simple beep will do. 

Locale gives the user a choice ol worti 
time zones in which to work, and 
guages to use, but its lunction is otherwJ 
a little unclear. How it will be in 
mented we will tell you as soon ■ 
Commodore admit that Workbench 2 
exists. 

PrinterPS enables full Workbench c\ 
trol of PostScript output specs, ioclud 
font selection of the Adobe 35 PostScn 
font set supplied with most compati 
laser printers. There's a full text optic 
panel where users can set the text 
leading, line spacing, and margini. 

Paper size, orientation, and most otl 
settings are also catered lor, with it 
notable exception of scaling, Let's he 
this last feature can be included before j 
final version is released. 

CrossDOS 

CrossOOS, at long last, provides a 
dard by which Amiga users tan for 
read, and write to MS-DOS format fie 
pies. Implementation of the feature 
excellent, as the standard Formal co 
mand does all the work, and depend 
on what drive you tell it to format, 
type ol disk you're after. 

In addition to this, there's a neat 
fuel gauge box showing how lar the to 
mat is proceeding which pops 
onscreen whenever you initialise a 
from Wofkbeneh. 

To cap It off, Workbench 2.10 is 
first version to arrive complete with 
own installer program, usir 
Commodore's now standard Install 
gram, which makes life a lot easier For f 
drive users. More on Workbench 2,10 
happens, especially if we can squee; 
some official documentation 
out of Commodore. 



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had the pleasure of playing 
with just about every 24 -bit 
board on the market, As a result, the immi- 
nent arrival of yet another system was 
greeted with interest, but to be honest not 
exactly wild excitement. 

As 1 turned out, my Initial apathy was 
transformed into amazement as what 
appeared to be a bargain basement release 
proved to be one of the best systems I've 
had the opportunity of using, regardless of 
price. Rather than a simple display board, 
AVideo offers a vast array of features only 
matched in variety by GVP's less than 
impressive IV24. 

One of the few drawbacks, of the board 
concerns installation. The problem isn't 
caused by the procedure itself but rather by 
its implications for your warranty 

The board is designed primarily lor the 
Al 500 and upwards, although Checkmate 
claim compatibility with ASOOs. Unlike all 
other systems, AVideo doesn't employ a 
Zorro slot as an installation point, To fit the 
board you must first remove the drive bay 
and pop out the Denise - Amiga's designer 
display chip, Once free from her moorings, 



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the aforesaid chip is then popped into an 
identical slot on the board. When secure, 
the new PCB with its selection of additional 
chips plus oood old Denise are mounted 
back in the original chip socket. 

All that remains is to trail the accompa- 
nying cable to a suitable Zorro through slot 
complete with its RGB connector ready to 
accommodate the monitor- 
There are basically two problems with 
this process. Firstly, piggy-backing chips is 
strictly illegal in the eyes of Commodore. As 
a result, being caught with the offending 
addition on your motherboard will invali- 
date your guarantee. If however your war- 
rantee is no more than a distant memory, 
who cares what. Commodore think! 

Direct soldering 

Perhaps a more serious threat to the 
future of the board is Commodore's 
planned move to surface-mounted technol- 
ogy, tn other words, all major components 
will tie soldered directly on to the mother- 
board. 

This annoying change of direction is 
sure to put all piggy-back style products in 
real trouble, Therefore, if you're planning 
to upgrade to a Al SOU or above with an 
AVideo Dn board, you'd be well advised to 
do the decent thing, sooner, rather than 
later, otherwise you could 
miss yoor chance altogether. 

With these two points out 
of the way, it's lime to get 
down to some serious flattery. 
Once the hardware is safely 




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sive collection of software. 

Aside Irom the commercial software, the 
system rjlfefs a powerful array of control 
utilities which add a lot of weight to the 
board's potential as a multimedia worksta- 
tion. 

Perhaps the most obvious, and instantly 
appealing, option allows you to load either 
1 2- or 24-bil images and display them 
through colour zero on the Workbench 
screen. By applying the aforementioned 
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genlocking effect with either 1 2- or 24-t* 
images appearing as the ultimate 
Workbench backdrop. 

As well as offering designer backdrop; 
it's also passible to produce Picture in 
Picture or PIP effects with the graphic of 
your choice floating in a window all its 
own. As with the majority of AVldeo's dis- 
play formats, this is controlled via the 
Opera animation software - which I'll cover 
in detail a little later in the article. 

Imagery 

To produce any effect obviously requires 
imagery, but thanks to yet another control 
utility the board isn't merely restricted to 
1 2- or 24-bit creations. 

Any standard Amiga graphic can be 
converted via the AVRemap utility for dis- 
play on the board, so there's no reason 
why standard Amiga art can't appear 
alongside 12- or 24-bit images as part of 
either an animation or a slide show. As 






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well as the amazing 
tint bundle (see box), 
in equally important piece 
of software must be the 
AJlexx-bajed interpreter, 
S pen 

Opera allows the user to 

pjtfe impressive flnima- 

, and slide shows by 

em ploying the power of 

Aftexx via a CanDo-style 

ujipl-bulldirtg interface. 

the software automates 
3w development of ARexx 
scripts to the point where 
even relatively/ inexperi- 
enced ARex* users can produce stunning 
effects and anims. By using the board's 
own Icon-driven installation software, 
*video can be made resident via the 
•. bench Or CLI and then address 
t 'ectly via ARexx. 

Once active, trie Opera utility opens a 
interface which allows simple elicit 
selection of files and effects, which then 
retandy translate into an ARexx script and 
appear in an adjacent script window Hither 
■ Tiplete scripts or individual lines can then 
De run and tested as required. 

If faults occur, the errors are trapped in 





Iff, eye, this looks fnttrtsling. . . 

TVPaint In anion 

an additional output console with a stan- 
dard ARexx error message detailing the 
offending line ready for correction. 

No doubt you're thinking Opera sounds 
a bit too good to be true, and to be honest 
- for the average A Ren* novice - it is. 
Although the interface and console are 
indeed friendly and do take a lot of the 
drudgery out of script compilation, the 
ARexx scripts created are exactly that - 
pure ARe*x, 
For the novice, tracking down and 
debugging even an auto- 
matically-generated AReax 
script can be a painful and 
confusing process. As a 
result, it's not a good idea 
to expect a. miraculous 
performance without a 
reasonable knowledge of 
the language. 

For example, when 
errors dccut within a 
script, bog standard 

Tramfomr your 
hoinetiotd pels 
ititc.tr. 74 bit 
huutrhotd pels 



The facts and figures 

In terms of resolution,, AVideo more than matches up to the opposition with a full broad- 
cast 768 x S80 display - ideal for video applications - or standard Amiga output of 640 x 
512 (hk« interlace), 

Image quality is also impressive, with a full 24-bit 16.11 million colour display. During 
editing and animation, two 1 2-bit buffers are employed giving a true 4,096 colour dis- 
play which can then be toggled via TVPaint or the board's own software to display full 
24-bit as a separate still frame display, 

An additional genlock adaptor allows full genlocking of 12-bit images over live video, 
or alternatively Amiga graphics and animation can overlay the output of the board in 
both 1 2- and 24-brt modes. 

Picture in Picture is available for still images in both 1 1- and 24-bit display modes, with 
a maximum refresh rate ot 3./5Qths of a second lor each 1 2-bit buffer. 

According to Checkmate, the system is capable ol running on a standard Amiga, 
although to be honest I wouldn't recommend it. To employ TVPaint property, you'll 
require a 68030, and you'll need at least 8Mb of fast memory to use the program's 24-bit 
Undo option when using full overscan. 

The board also offers full broadcast resolution for 12-bit double buffered animation 
with a maximum speed of 1 2.5 frames a second in hi-res interlace and 25 frames a sec- 
ond in non-interlace. Both these figures depend on your system and the amount of 
movement during subsequent frames in the anim. 

When utilising the highest possible quality, 12-bit update times are reduced to nine 
frames per second for hires interlace and 1 7 seconds for non-interface. The first format is 
designed tor TV and video, while the second offers the maximum clarity for mulliscan 
and VGA monitors. 



ARexx error messages are reported via the 
console, so unless you have some under- 
standing of the scripts themselves, debug- 
ging can be a tricky business. 

Having had a slight whinge, it's perhaps 
worth recapping what Opera can offer 
when mastered. Aside from simple sequen- 
tial slide shows, images can be introduced 
with an impressive range of supplied 
effects. 

Additional text can be included in the 
font of your choice, while images appear in 
windows on the Workbench, or as overlays, 
on existing graphics. Animations can be 
compiled from full screen images, while 
individual objects or brushes can be ani- 
mated and overlaid to add even more 
excitement to the presentation. In short, 



The spectacularly tasty TVPaint 



The most notable commercial addition has to be ihe premier 24-bM 
paint package, TVPaint vl,6. This atone is trough to make Ihe 
board a spectacular bargain - in its Harlequin form the soitwdre 
alone retails at £940! 

In the case of Av'itl< 0, IVPamt comes as part and parcel of Ihe 
system and SHU somehow manages to sell for |us1 £599 inclusive of 
both the board and all additional software. 

In relation to the Harlequin you effectively get the board for 
nothing and still save £200 plus on the price of the software alone. 
Ol course this calculation doesn't include the tost ot the Harlequin 
■ .ml itself which will set you back a further £1,100 In its basic form. 

Ukc the board, AVkdeo'i version ol TVl 5 ,n-n > 1*1 impressive 

produd wifh .ill Mir l,ili".' .I'l.l i ; ji i-, thai vl 6 h.,11 tO Offer. The only 

elements missing in relation to th* Hwtequtr toftwwt b ihe Big 

I'll "!■■ , rthirh .ilnvv -.-!.! 1 In mrivc .iruu'lfj ,rlil ".ill iMI.icfi-S 

,ib(V4- I'm- l.n.i,ir!l\ m,mmim m m'i i ,."•. .n;: MOHK% tVf.url''-. 
Alpha channel support this |i<n> li.i m<\ 32-bit arch> 

tecluri' 

Aside from ihese two options, Ihe software rs identical, The only 
Operating :|iflerence is the restriction ol two 12-bit buffer] ,i\ 
OOjWMd to I rue 24-brt double buttering Dn the Harlequin card. 

BtCHM ol the 1 2-bit tdll option, the actual paint display is in 



4,096 1 = ■! > ■ . 1 1 ■- I'ii-. ,Ii:ji.iIi,i mil fir contused with Ham'i 1 I ''' 
colours, as the AVkfcO rJtptsy Is run I ') In 1 ami as ,1 rev 1 1 dots noi 
suffer any fringing or other problems associated with Ham. 

On general imagery it's quite tricky to tell a 1 2 bit display apan 
Irom 24-bit, The difference only really appears When graduated 
painting is applied either via the spray can or during graduated 
■ -Ik. •■■■ U 1. h uMi'ions produced noticeably stepping or colour 
bandsastu- ..iIh^iImh Ul< -. 

To Ihe 24-bit purist this probably sounds like a unacceptable sac- 
hul all is not lost. The board dis.pi.-iv- l vT.nni's edit screens In 
I i lit but actually paints In lulF 24-bit. SNglitry conlusingi, 1 agree. 

Because the image is in lad true 24-bil disguised as 12-bii, -i'. 
possible Id view it in till its 24-bit glory by ikitply accessing ih '.*,-• 
menu and switching ihr bosrd nin Us JA Inl unqli' Irame display 
ii--.i|. 

T !■ 1 ■ - miiy noiiceabta different* heiwecn the Kftrteq :| 

TVPant during editing is the slightly liowet screen upM.ii I I 

particularly inlurlating tendency for the pointer on the AVKleo ver- 
sion to float a quarter ol an inch above the point of application dur- 

Ing panting in video mode (768 * 580J - a minor hi,u. I 

innoylng one which I'm assured will \k put right In the next 
update. 



Opera is an impressive addition which in 
time is sure to become an invaluable tool 
to any serious user, especially those 
involved in multimedia and" animation, 

As a general purpose 24-bit multime- 
dia/graphics card, AVideo literally blows 
the opposition out of the water with a 
combination of state-of-the-art software 
and flexible applications. 

The only aspect I'd like to see improved 
is the documentation for the board Itself, 
with perhaps a detailed tutorial on how to 
get the best from Opera. 

Unrivalled 

In terms of 24-bit RGB output, it's unri- 
valled for both price and performance m 
comparison to both the IV24 and G2's 
Imagica. This is a position which will soon 
be enhanced even further by the addition 
of a 24-bit frame grabber which 
Checkmate are planning to supply as an 
add-on to the system. 

In terms of animation, AVideo's only 
rival is DCTV which because of its built-in 
frame grabber and microscopic file format 
is arguable still the ideal 24-bit option for 
animation aimed directiy at VHS video. 

Having said that, DCTVs composite 
output doesn't match up to AVdeo's 12- 
bit anim display for higher quality anima- 
tion and slide shows. In short, if you're 
about to invest in a general purpose 24- bit 
system, it's almost impossible to consider 
any other board as a better buy than this 
truly excellent product. 



AVideo is available from 

Checkmate Digital 

Tel 071-923 0658 

Fax 071 -2 54 1655 

AVideo 1 2-bit version £299 

AVideo 24-bit version £599 



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ait month's column took us to 
the point where we thou Id have & 
home-made disk, called MyDisk, 
MTtti the barest of Amiga DOS files an it to 
iHow auto-booting. 

If you didn't follpw last month's col- 
umn, you'll 1 haVe to buy a copy of the 
magazine through our back issues offer 
towards the fear of the mag. |ust folk>w 
the instructions ir> the column and you'll 
m bang up to date with the rest of us, 

Before you can properly use the 
.'.orkbench that your startup-sequence 
oads, you'll have to be able to click on 
<ons and to open a Shell. Far this, MyDisk 
•ill require a "library file and the corned 
commands and so on to make a Shell 
*ork. Pint of all, we'll add the library. 

Icon. library is the AmigaDOS file ton- 

atning the routines needed by Kickstart to 

dsptay icons onscreen and has a sister in 

• r shape of Info.library, which enables 

iier to mess about with icon tool 

pet 

We'll worry about tool types in later 
columns,, so as you're probably eager just 
to get those icons to appear, copy 
con.library from you* Workbench disk to 
MyDisk using the command: 

HPT LlBS:U»IUIBIUlir TD MHSt:UM 

Now we're ready to delve Into some of 
:ie more esoteric areas of AmigaDOS. We 
-,ave a very empty disk and over the next 
lew months we'll progressively fill it with 
*jes, dealing in each column with a new 
practical application. 

For the rest of this instalment, we'll 
concentrate on Shell so that when we use 
disk we can access its gradually 
*icreasing power. 

Shell has charged a great deal in the 

-'ansition from Workbench 1.1 to 2.04, 

both in its user interface and in the files 

led to make it Function. On a 



Workbench 1.3 disk, there are several 
more steps you'll need to take to gel Shell 
up and running, so we'll start with a 2.04 
Shell and then detail the further steps 
needed by 1.1 owners. 

For those using Kickstart and 
Workbench 2.04, setting up a Shell has 
heen made very easy. All the Workbench 
1.3 device-handlers and sa on have been 
made resident in the Kickstart ROM which 
means you need only copy a Shell icon 
and Shell-startup file to MyDisk to equip it 
with a window into ArragaDOS. 

To do this, boot with your Workbench 
disk and locate your Shelf icon - it may be 
in the main window or could be stored in 
the system drawer. Mow click on it to 
open Shell and change directory to wher- 
ever the Shell icon is situated. 

ff it is the main disk window (the root 
directory), you should already be in the 
correct place. If it is in the system drawer, 
type: 

CD SHitWS 

to change directory. Now all users should 
type: 



and the shell kon, designated, as all kons 
are, by the "jnfg" bit tagged on the end, 
will be copied to your designer disk. 

You will now have a bask operable 
Shell, but to add a final touch, the Shell- 
startup file should be copied across as 
well. This is a script file - we discussed 
these last month, remember? - executed 
one command at a time when you open 
Shell, in much the same way as a startup- 
sequence Is executed when your disk 
boots up. 

The standard Shell-startup contains a 
few Alias commands (explained later) and 
the Prompt command. The hie will be the 



This month's jargon 

Mountlist 

An Ascii file containing the AmigaDQS definitions of every device to he mount* il 
Witliiv.iL this hi. and the correct entri*'*. in the DEVS: drawer, you'd get one of those 
Intry not found" error metsagt". .iml nothing would happen. A mountlist will usu- 
ally contain entries for NEWCON;. SPEAK:, RAD:, and so on. 



Resident 

Resident command, AmigaDOS can make a variety of commands and device 
" "ii(i<-rii in memory, which means they are kept in RAM until a pri"; 
needs to use them. Only "pure' command* can be made resident, so if the lile in 
question is not "pure it wilt be lorced into that stale lay the resident command 

Pure 

II an executable lile such as an Amiga DOS command 4 can effectively be 

used by mmt than one Shell process or program at a time, and if a pure file is made 
resident, it will be Accessed quickly end efRdently This is central to the Amiga's mulli 
f.dking operating system and I "I time. 

•■ s pure status tan be set on ur nii tiy ottering the 1i4<- j peotfK I 
whkdi is resen ed in the role of keeping tabs on this, Not all liJes can be made pure 
but many of the standard AmigaDOS commands, such as Execute and Assign i 



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Stevie Kennedy 
starts to fill the 
tutorial disk and 
looks at setting 
up Shell 



PART 4 




A Nil AH at 
MyChk i/iuwi 

Internal ittttp 

trhhh h 

tu hjjtafftTng la 



same whether you are using Workbench 
1,3 or 2.04, and simply sets up the condi- 
tions the user chooses for his or her Shell 
when it is opened. 

For example, if you wanted your cur- 
rent directory to be SYS;WORK when you 
loaded Shell, the command CD 
SYSiWQKK coukd be inserted somewhere 
in the Shell-startup to cairy out the direc- 
tory change automatically when you click 
on your Shell icon, Smart, eh? For now, 
we'll refrain from tampering with the file 
and just look at what it does. 

' If you type ID S:SHEll-STARTUP while 
in Shell, you should have a copy of the file 
visible onscreen, and have noticed an 
entirely new command, namely Alias. This 
is an extremely useful command which 
only works in conjunction with Shell and 
which can make life a great deal easier. It 
is used to give an "alias" or shortened ver- 
sion to any single command string you 
care to define, 

To set up an alias, you would use the 
following sort of line: 



startup to substitute a much easier to type 
alternative such as. 



In future all you'd have to do to cany out 

the diskcopy would be to type DOT and 
the clever little Shell would know what 
you meant, 

The other command you'll find in the 
Shell-startup file is the Prompt command, 
usually the last Dne in the file, Prompt is 
used to tell Shell how much information 
to display before the cursor, and can be 
configured to display just the process 
number or the lull-blown pathname of the 
directory in which you are working. 

The latter can be useful when you jump 
through several directories as you always 
know your position in the directory "tree", 
and for this reason is the recommended 
mode of operation. The Prompt command 
you will see in your Workbench disk's 
shell-startup tile is best left as it is, as it 
takes the form: 



ALUS CrPur efcgttl D f llili] -*irg.D« 
iDHH-.d itrtnj" 



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This means that if you get bored typing 
the full command for a simple diskcopy, 
you could insert a line in your Shell- 



PeOBPT '1,H.IS> 



The %N part just displays the number of 
the Shell process, and the %S part dis- 
plays the full pathname of your current 



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directory. After that there's a space, for 
purely aesthetic purposes, and a little 
arrow |usl in case you need to be told 
where to start typing which, si we're 
rapidly becoming Amiga experts, we 
won't particularly requirel 

Right, we've looked at t he lwo sl& P s 
for setting up a Workbench 2.04 Shell, 
bath d! which are applicable to 
Workbench 1-3 owners, so we'll now 
look at the extra tiles and setup condi- 
tions required by a 1.3 Shell. First the 

files. 

To get it over with as painlessly as pos- 
sible, here's s list of d the additional files 
needed by a 1-3 Shell and their location 
on your Workbench 1 .3 disk; 

«C:PR 

• CrREStDENl 

• C:MQUNT 
#DEV5: MOUNTLIST 
#L:NEWCON-HANDLER 

• L: SHELL-SEC 

• SYS: SYSTEM /CLI 

Before copying them to MyDisk, you'll 
have to make an L directory and one 
called "system " in the disk's root direc- 
tory, as our disk doesn't have either of 

these yet. 

The L- directory, you will remember, ii 
where we keep device handlers to com- 
plement the devices kept in DEVS;. The 
file Newcon-Handler is the device han- 
dler used to set up the NEWCON: device, 
which is in effect the Shell window itself. 

For now, type: 




I0Pi COM tl MR; 

COPT CP T* MR: 

{DPI :;P*DflPT TD RMh 
COPT C;BESK61|I TO M: 
COPT CWIWT TD KM: 
CJP1 L^UfCM-HAMLiR TO PA* 
(AM L:lHtLL-SE6 W MR: 
jqp' ttcSTSTOlrill tc MR; 

The next step is to CD RAMi, eject your 
Workbench disk, insert MyDisk in the 
internal drive, then type: 



CDTT m*» TMtOISKiC 
KM R5S10ENT TO M01«i< 

cs»t mdht t* «i»s<:C 

;i!P> NEJlOH-HAPblEt T& Pr&lSIiL 
C3PT S«L1-JE6 TO |1(D1«;L 
(OPT (LI T4 UTOJSCSfSTtl 



The structure 
ofMvOisk 

ir you Mow the column through, 

you should end up with an 
outo-booting dtak wlh a dlieeiuy 
rtrucimc ike uw one shown here 










IHETjIP RTHSRi 
MJufEDK mi5K.:SHTE« 



ttl 






then, if you're a single drive owner, copy 
all the files you meed into RAM like this: 



Once ail that's over, type CD SYS; and 
replace Workbench m the drive when 
prompted. We now have the correct ffltS 
in place for a version 1 .3 Shell, and all 
thaO ^lt is to put in place the startup 
commands needed to mount the device. 

To do this, we'll need to create a Hie 
tailed "mounter in the DEVS: directory 
of My Disk, and insert two new limes In 
MyDisk's startup-sequence, A mounts is 
an Ascii file containing one or more entries 
describing the devices we wish to mount, 
but in the case of MyDisk, it needs only 
one entry (for NEWCON:). 

Userc of 2-M machines won't need to 
create a mountlist yet as NEWCON: is 
mounted automatically by Hi distort. 
However, you should carry out the follow- 
ing instructions in any case, as it'll save 
you creating a mountlist later in trie series. 
Step one is to open Shell and type: 

ED iMhiomiTLlST 

which will create a blank file m the RAM 
disk and open the Workbench text editor. 
Next, type the following mountlist 



This month's commands 

Resident 

„ ,, nil Lp ,|,|, ■.rtkk-.rt m.m'nUHV.thusspeedimiui-. MBSS twlng t*W 

Used to mate .i HI* n <iu< i« ' l rrmltlttrtWra purposes. 



z e :sKzs=i — ™ ~ - - - 



BisiJEiT dim) mum »w*m mmn nm [wtm) 



m optfor ■** -"- V* c ™ *• lo lhe "" ^? 

«»Md will .dd «m m to the mkhot M, ** «mg «««°* *rUido u 
oppZe The Systen, parameter * ,dd the file to a «p*cW <^t,i„ ^ hi 

Mount 

Thesynt^si wed is 



I4UKT mtHO CFlO* 3 



where (device} corresponds to the name ol the device in the mount i* enlryjou 

£ use the From arg rnenL H you have an alternative mountlist containing entnes 
Z fo n m MVS.MOUNTL1ST. the Ml. to which mount refers by default. 




XXL, 

□ E3 □ ED CD 



MOUNl 

prompt 

RjfHDt!*T 

LOADWB 

ENDCU 



SVSTEM- SHELL-SEG K<M*#W JAW^ 

itfHJKrter STAmF 




~iMi« te« <-*** «* ** *** "• «• """ *-* " t ' , " ,, '• * ra ^ ttonj7 



entry verbatim, to give your mountlist a 
description of Shell which the Amiga will 
understand: 



MM: 



IIMIEI = L:MK«MMIIL£I 

PPtOtlTl - 5 

ST UK St it - iom 




The lirst line of our mountlist entry tells 
the Amiga Die name of the device,, in this 
case NEWCON:, and the second desig- 
nates the device handler to be used, 
which is the Shell-sen. file we've just 
copied to M=YDl$K:L. 

The third and fourth lines don't con- 
cern us at m itage, but priority basicilry 
sets out how high in the device list a 
device will appear, and stacksije sets aside 
a bulfer of 1,000 bytes which Shell uses, 
among other things, to remember the last 
few commands you've typed in. 

Don't forget the hash mark at the end 
on a line of its own. Without this, the 
Amiga will not recognise the device entry 
as the hash mark acts as a sort of full stop, 
lo save the mountlist file, press Esc then 
X, and it will be written to the RAM disk 
ready to be transferred to MyDisk 
Assuming the commands you earlier 
copied into the RAM disk are still there, 
you should be able to do this by typing; 



rp Mil 

(OPT PKWItTLW T» «IDIS^DU5 



then typing 



£D mo|JK:S/iTMITBP-SE»llE»t.E 

- we have still to add the startup com- 
mands which will mount Shell ready for 

use. 

So far, the startup-sequence will con- 
tain onry two lines, LOAPWB and ENDCL1. 
To ensure that Shell is initiated on startup. 



add the following lines at the top of the 
file: ^^^^^^^ 

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uses the Resident command to place the 
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the name "CLI", at the same time mdkin? 
sure il is "Pure", which means more thar 
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This complicated piece of AmigaDOS 
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set it up as quickly as possible. 

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When the original Vista land- 
scape generator hit the 
Amiga you could hardly 
hear yourself think for the sound of 
COUntisj e*-hippies screaming about the 
ins and cuts of 'chaos theory, interspersed 
with the occasional lament on favourite 
fractals part and prevent 

After the final mushroom had met its 
maker, the cold light of day soon 
brought the grim realisation! that 
although generating fractal landscapes is 
indeed an impressive application, it does 
have a fairly limited field of application, 
especially if the end result tan only 
appear as a Ham. 

Revised 

As a result, Virtual Reality La&s Inc 
needed to find a use for what was-. In 
effect, an application without a cause. 
With the release of Vista Pro! they've 
done exactly that. 

The new version has been revised dra- 
matically and now offers the kind of 
power that professional animators and 
still-frame graphic artists demand. 

Before we delve into the program's 
latest enhancements, it's perhaps worth 
recapping the basics of the program 
itself, with a brief guide as to exactly 
what a scenery generator is, and what it 

can offer. 

Perhaps the best place to start is with 




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the landscapes them- 
selves. Although the 
program is capable of 
generating random 
fractal landscapes 
and islands, perhaps 
the most interesting 
starting point for any 
would-be traveller is 
on one of the supplied 
DEM landscapes. 

DEM stands for 
Digital Elevation Model. 
The data lor these models 
has been compiled via official 
US geological surveys which sann 
pled the ground level every 25 metres 
over the entire northern United States 

As a result, once a DEM is loaded, your 
machine holds an incredibly accurate 3D 
model of the entire region in question. 

Around 20 DEM files come as standard 
with the software, giving you instant 
access to famous landmarks such as the 
Grand Canyon, Mount 5t Helens - before 
and after the eruption - El Capitan in 
Yosemite, and so on. 

Interplanetary 

Thanks to the United Slates* exploits in 
space, the available landscapes aren't 
restricted to the Earth, The collection 
even includes DEMs depicting Olympus 
Mons at\ Mars! 

If the included files aren't enough to 
whet your appetite, VRLI have another 
2,000 landscapes ready and waiting. 

As I mentioned earlier, DEMs aren't 
the only source of landscapes, as the pro- 
gram can create its own fractal land- 
scapes to order - either as islands or 
entire regions. 

Although the process of random gen- 
eration is indeed haphazard, the results 
are, more often than not, stunning to say 
the least. 

II we assume the program now con- 
tains a landscape, the next task is to add 
the natural leatures which transform a 



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machine in search of 

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spaces within 

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lump of fractal rock into a living, breath- 
ing entity, It's here where the new pro- 
gram really starts to shine. The first task is 
to set the climatic constraints on the 
environment by assigning the sea level, 
tree line, snow line and haze. 

Adjustment of the lirst three parame- 
ters is simply a matter of assigning an 
altitude for each, The fourth option is one 
of the all-new additions to the program. 
As you've probably guessed by the name. 



the hare definition allows you to define 
atmospheric distortion at a predefined 
distance. Low values produce a misting 
effect, while higher levels bring on a real 
pea souper... 

Once the atmosphere and its effects 
have been taken care of, the next task is 
to embellish the land with the odd bit of 
greenery. This again is another new fea- 
ture. 

You now have the choice of palms, 
oaks, pines or cacti with which to popu- 
late your imaginary land, The choice isn't 
limited to a single type of plant - you can 
add all four variants to a single scene K 






Importing the real world 

The icing on the cake lurks wllhln the programs Property pull down menu. 
, lU1 !i RwJ ,. who* MffeS ol options which help translate the 3D world of 
Visia inlo Ihe two dimensions we humans know and low 

fa example the colour map within the program can be exported to DM* 
■w standard M and then w aaiwrttd wiihvaryim, iiniiu.Mii rtftadt at attei 

, ,i.i features mi m mmi hv a few simple mouse strokes in 

DPainl 

A, ,i rpsuli ii the jU'I.hI.- hi i "as employed, it's possible to either draw 

<» km i conventional Ordnance Survey map. and then have Vista translate this 
Into | rirtual ?D equivalent. Alternatively, you could take another route .iml 
email Baecriot* data representing tiw actual features ol the landicafM 

.-,, i consequence, adding ,. Rnc ol trees b *Rp* » matter of drawing ■ few 
in Dr.nni and itien re-importing the new colourmap back into Vista. It's even 
pcKsfcta to add pimple build* by the same process. 

vm,.,i Mekcpath b to mfcattion Teirafefin ta to land shaping. As a result, u i 
an essential additional tool tor those interested in real to virtual world conver 
sion, because lo res DPairM images produce very stepped and unnatural tend- 
suiLies this is where Terraform tome*, into its own. 



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required. Once the variety or varieties are 
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size in metres and relative density. At this 
point, experimentation is the key to real- 
bflt results, if the trees are loo small or 
perhaps to thinly spread they can, and 
often do, look ridiculous. 

Having said that, with some patient 
experimentation and intelligent camera 
placement, the additional foliage can 
really breath some lite into a otherwise 
sterile scene. 

To be honest, real close-ups don't do 
the program any favours, as even the best 



attempt at a fractal tree can't really hold 
a candle to its organic equivalent. 

The only other slight whinge concerns 
the rather methodical placement ol the 
trees themselves. The end result is a for- 
est which appears to have been sown by 
a chartered surveyor rather than a 
bearded, beer-guziling lumberjack. 

Still, if more than one variety is on 
hand it does help to break the 
monotony, as indeed does the fact that 
the trees vary - even within a single vari- 
ety - from plant to plant. 

The final addition takes the form of 
optional waterways- Either rivers (which 
automatically meander down to the val- 
leys) or lakes (which flood the lowlands) 
can be selected, The two can be com- 
bined to add even more variety to the 
scene. 

Watery grave 

AH such additions are controllable, in 
as much as you're given the option to 
accept or cancel before committing large 
tracts of your new world to a watery 
g rave. 

Once the actual scene-setting is com- 
plete, the final design tasks are to either 
adjust or load the colour palette for your 
particular scene. If you want to create the 
very Blue Ridge mountains of Virgina, 
you can. 

Alternatively you can transform an 
existing lush green landscape into an arid 
desert by simply applying the colour map 
of another more desolate DEM. 

The colour map screen gives you the 
usual palette adjustment options every 
D Paint fan will be familiar with, plus a 
completely silly option to listen to the 
landscape as it renders via the Amiga's 
internal sound, 

As a result, you can now hear creative 



Get it in perspective 

Having completed the creative stage, the next task is to select a placement for 
the camera and the target or finishing point for a fly through animation. 

Selection of the two points is simplicity itself - you simply click rm cither tar 
tjet or camera and then select two likely spots on the landscape. 

II you wan! to check your placement, the Preview icon transforms the land 
scape area Into a wireframe representation of the image. A crosshair appears 
allowing you to make the final adjustments which are automatical updated in 
the numerical input windows. 

When you're happy with the appearance ol your panorama, the XV and Z 
co-ordinates can be locked either singly or as a whole, preserving the perfect 

viewpoint, 

Aside from simple still frames, VislaPro2 even in its standard form - is capa 
ble of basic animation. AH that's required is a starting point or camera view and 
a target to travel towards. 

Once the two points are established, the software asks for the desired num- 
ber of frames and the program automatically begins the rendering process. 

The only limitation is that the flight path is strictly limited to straight A -to B. 
To be honest even with this limitation the eflecl for the first time user is nolh 
m. j vhorl of astonishment, especially il the anim is in one of the higher resolu 
Lions 

lost like the still-frame alternative, the fly through can be previewed in its 3D 
wirelrame form, so any polenlial collisions can be spotted before committing 
your machine to the lengthy rendering process, 



Subtlety or speed? 

The scene is set, the camera's ready, now all that's iveeded is an ripwuif* 1 
is the point ail which you have to make a decision. 

If you want real quality as shown in several of our examples, f l going to Ltfv 
time, and in scenes wllh numerous ailtiiltonal fealures such a<i trees, graduated 
skies and high levels of Image enhancement, the avirage unatrelenled ASOO K 
looking at ail overnight exposure for a single frame. 

The reason is thai VislaPro isn't simply a number crunching I metal iji-iu-r atw 
but, in fact, a full blown, high quality ray tracing program to boot, Thi< highesl 
quality output combinations are very fin* indeed and as a result t heir's no way 
of avoiding vaslly increased rendering tiroes 

Having said that, il you're planning to employ Vista Pro2 as a last action ani 
malion tool, it's doubtful that yOu'U need the very hicihi-sl qu*H*> in every 
frame, As a result, rendering limes can be dramatically improved. 

II you can survive wilhoul I he smallest possible polygons, truly Hie like tex 
lures and assorted shading and Mending techniques, you can save hours M 
even days in rendering time. 

Similarly, smatler screen si/es and lowfr resolutions help immensely. Basically 
the choice is yours - il you wanl the best, you've got to pay lor il, either 
through long rendering times or expensive additional acceleration. 



process as well as en|oy the fin- 
ished product. As I said, a silly 

but amusing addition. I can only 
assume than VRU are not 
adverse to the odd mushroom 

themselves... 

On a more senous note is the 
essential option to lock the 
colour palette of all frames des- 
tined to become a part of an 
animated sequence. 

If for the moment your only 
real interest lies in still-frame 
creations, the option to lock the 
palette of numerous frames may 
seem unimportant, but to the 
animator, locking subsequent 
frames to the original is essential to 
achieve continuity. 

Few the professional user, perhaps the 
most important addition Df all is the 
much enhanced output. This alone is sure 
to transform a formerly interesting appli- 
cation into a really powerful artistic tool. 




Continuity 



With the option to output your cre- 
ations as RGB or ?4-bit IFFs or even DCTV 

display files, the commercial door has 

been swung wide open. 

The program will output individual 
frames or entire animations in the format 
of your choice. These could be individual 
sequential 24-bit files, ready for still frame 
recording on high-end video kit, or for 
compilation into Vista's own proprietary 
Vanim format which allows you to play 
your sequences direct from disk. 

All standard Amiga display formats - 
including Ham - are on offer, plus the 
option ol applying full video spec over- 
scan and interface. 

This leaning towards animation may 
appear slightly confusing considering the 
rather limited animation options within 
the basic program - the reason is that the 
internal options are onfy the beginning of 
Vista Pro's animating potential. 

The program only really starts to shine 



Mountain! t>r moonlight, foil omt 

of Vti to i optima! atrial (dull 

as an animation tool when combined 
with the additional Makepath program 
which vaLl offer as an addition to the 

original package. 

Thanks to this beautifully simple and 
immensely powerful program, it's possi- 
ble to skim the surface of your creation in 
a anything from a cruise missile to a heli- 
copter, twisting and turning as you go, 
following every contour of the land and 
banking with every turn. 

In short, I think the results speak for 
themselves. VlstPro 2 is indeed a memory 
and accelerator-scoffing beast, but for 
serious artists it's a tool you simply can't 
afford to be without. 

# For a Ml review of Makepeih - onrf 
T&tatwm, Us Sandsaipe-a&Jting (wmerpait • 
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D 



uring last month's Updates col- 
umn t promised to review a 
frame- grabber designed to work 
directly with the Harlequin 32-bit graphics 
card. On arrival it transpired that, the kit in 
question isn't merely restricted to the 
Harlequin, and is in fact ideal for grabbing 
in a whole range of formats. Ham 
included. 

After a few hours it became clear that 
this particular hardware/ software combi- 
nation is worth far more than a simple 
mention in Updates, and could be the 
ideal answer to the question of real-time 
frame grabbing across the board. 

Unfortunately for A500 users the new 
system is reliant on Zorro slots which are 
only round on trie A1SO0 and above. As 
far as I'm aware there are no plans to port 
the system over to the 500, so I'm afraid 
it's a case of upgrade or settle for another 
system. 

Composite inputs 

The grabber itself comes on a hard 
card-style beard, offering two composite 
inputs on the rear. The restriction of com- 
posite is perhaps the only chink in the 
armour of the system - as far as profes- 
sional users are concerned. 

The average serious enthusiast/ profesr 
sional is more likely to require S-VHS and 
upwards as a potential grabbing environ- 
ment. 

Having said that, I think the results 
speak for themselves, Ail the images in the 
article were captured via a very ageing 
and average S-VHS VCR providing a 
composite signal to the card. The 
two available inputs can he tog- 
gled via the software,, providing 
the ideal setup for the profes- 
sional: user. 

In fact, up to three cards 
can be placed in a single 
machine, offering a total of 
six potential source machines 
all controlled from the software 
simultaneously. 

With the hardware and software 
safely in my sticky little fingers, it 



may seem strange that the article is 
flagged as a preview rather than a review. 
The reason is that both the manual and 
the software are in German. 

As a result, a complete and in depth 
review is understandably a bit tricky. 
Nevertheless you tan rest assured that 
when the English version arrives, any fresh 
information will be instantly posted in 
Updates. 

According to Amiga Centre 
Scotland's Martin Lowe, an English 
version is already on its way with 
the manual to follow as soon as 
the translation process is com- 
plete. 

Aside from pure grabbing 
power, the most important aspect 
of any system is its interface, In 
this particular area Vlab does 
extremely welt even w ' ln ' ts P re " 
sent linguistic difficulties. 

The program can appear in one 
'of two lorms, either as a full screen 
interlace or as a dormant pull- 
down menu on the Workbench 
screen. 

The only restriction is that the 
program only operates on 
machines using WB2, As a result, 
even Al 500 and above owners still 
working with WB1.3 haven't 
totally escaped a certain amount 
of incompatibility. 

H you're thinking of upgrading to WB2, 
this is the ideal excuse. The insistence on 
WB2 isn't merely a matter of baste soft- 
ware compatibility. The program 
actually puts the additional 
features of WB2 to good use. 
For example, when- 
ever the program is exited it 
automatically saves the 
present setup to the ENV 
directory. As a result, every 
time you return to the 
program your favourite 
settings are automatically 
installed. 

The necessity for only pertains 
to the Kickstart ROM, so there's 






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no need to invest in an entire enhanced 
chip set. Fortunate really, as you're more 
likely to come across a bucket of chickens' 
teeth than the aforesaid upgrade. 

Once active, the first job is to open the 
monitor which appears as a small, inde- 
pendent Workbench window or PIP, 
housing a constantly updating display of 
the incoming video signal. The window 
can appear in anything from four to 16 
colours or alternate levels of greyscale, in 
either interlace or med-res. 

The beauty of the window system is 
that when in menu bar mode the window 
sits quietly alongside the assorted 
Workbench clutter, happily displaying the 




Sequential selection 



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Although singular grabs are Impressive, they're rial the limit 
«| the system's capabilities. With the assistance of Ihe ever 
present pull downv, you CHI *«*M the sequential grabbing 
option which allows you to grab a maximum of 255 Irames 

m |he live video sour 

■•■m\ v from (he wstem'S pure I may* quality, (his has to be 
our of fts moil Impressive capabilities. Vlab grabs all Us 
Imagery In Us own proprietary formal, namely vuv As a con 
..miii, ■in. H'i possible to grab W bit sequences and then con 
vii i hum thwa Into the formal ol your choice. 

As fa as I'm aware, Vlab is tf* tKlfj Independent grabber 

I, i with power. Obviously sequential frame grabbing is 

nemory Intensive, to Investment in a large amount of 
intra RAM li essential i ipeti«1rj H you're planning to 
employ the system's 24 Ml output While on the subject of 

„,,,,., .nxt pottlbd i -| .urn, i Is worth mentioning the 



system's filling of both RAM end aceleration. 

H there 1 light llaw, it's the program's prelerence for 
, ,i| .inns amount* ol memory and acceleration, especially dor 
Irtg a sequential grab, During testing 1 employed the services 
ol a GYP 030 combo card with a whopping 16Mb onboard. 
Although 1 never ran out of HAM, there was pi very sitjiiifU.iii! 

slowing of additional software, even when the program was 
emply. To he lair, the program itsell remained tauttiCSS bill 
Id say It's nal a parlicularly good idea to employ the system 

in the miiM ol alnny multitasking envi""- nl 

My only real concern is the gabbing rale of the board 
unlike the majority ol systems, i« sample .it a HtBKimurnol 18 
frames a second, as opposed to Die 25 Irames which some 
others olter. Having said lh.it the l> interface and single 
iH'lii options ptus the Impressive U t* spa more then make 
up lor mat particular cornprontiss 



signal, When an appropriate grab 
appears, a simple dick on a small accom- 
panying control window instantly cap- 
tures the image, 

Actually capturing images is literally 
that simple - you merely sit back watch- 
ing your miniature TV waiting patiently 
for the optimum moment to click on the 
control panel. 

A particularly pleasant aspect of this 
additional panel is the option to switch 
between capturing the complete interlace 
image or merely a single field. 

High speed images 

The beauty is that when you're dealing 
■with high speed images, sacrificing a Held 
within the interlace signal is often well 
worth the lose of clarity. Obviously a non- 
interlaced image isn't quite as impressive 
but it does abolish the perennial problem 
ol the dreaded intedace flicker. 

An additional weapon in the anti-inter- 
lace armoury lurks on the pull-down 
menu. If you happen to capture a ilickery 
but nevertheless impressive image, a de- 
interlace option can be applied to remove 
the offending field after capture - 
instantly transforming a migraine-induc- 
ing grab into a perfect picture, 

Once grabbed, the captive can appear 
in all standard Amiga colour and resolu- 
tion combinations, either with or without 
f toyd Steinburg, dithering. 

The actual importation process can also 
have a variety of filters available to pro- 
duce the optimum image. As you've 






Amiga Computing June 1992 



Preview 




Paul Austin previews Vlab, the latest and 

arguably the best real-time frame grabber 

yet to appear on the Amiga 



Saving and storage 



Yet another innovation is the system's preferred capture and storage famaL 
the first serious application to employ the impressive Y0JV file formic Al " 
Images are stored in it and then converted to a particular display rrwfcm, 
that be 24-bit or two colour - the choice is yours. 

The beauty of YUV format is primarily Its size, which on average appear be 
imately one-third that of an identical 24-bit IFF, and yet still retains all the • 
colour data- The only problem - as with any new format - is its .ntompatftatjr «**i 
existing software. 

To combat this, Vlab offers the option to save out a standard Amiga/24-bn 
According to Amiga Centre Scotland's Martin Lowe, this minor inconvenience jhouM 
be put right thanks to the inclusion or a new YUV loader and saver in the latest 
ol ADpro, plus an option to import the board's output directly Into the prr>- 



soon 

venfen 

gram. 




Martin went on to mention that Version 1,7 Off TVPaint - which is due for revise 
shortly - already supports. VUV within its Load and Save options. As with all upgrades 
of the offensively expensive TVPaint. this new version will be free to all registered 



The Harlequin 
connection 



II there's one thing that the premier 
graphic card ha* sadly lacked it's the 
option to grab live video. Now that ii 
all about to change. 

Thanks to the program's Output 
pull-down, the captured image can be 
displayed in a variety of ways, 
Harlequin included. Rather than saw- 

I i he captured file and loading it 
back onto the Harlequin, the software 
has a direct connection to the board 
and instantly ports the 24-bit Image 
straight onto it. 

This leaves you with two options - 
either you can use the Harlequin 
image as a reference point and save 
the 24-bit data directly to disk, or 
alternatively you can go straight to 
TVPaint and employ its Keep Screen 
option which boots TVPaint while 
retaining the image 



I (terfequfn cnfatto" <™d* '" mamtati with Vlab i turn:! to HmfnH" output 



probably guessed, I'm as impressed with 
the combination ol hardware and solt- 
ware as I'm sure you are with the images 
it provides. 

Vlab appears to be the system that the 
majority of graphics fanatics have been 
waiting for. If support lor the YUV file 
formal goes ahead, Amiga Centre 
Scotland could well have a monster on 
their hands. 

Hopefully MacroSystems, the company 
responsible for the system, will widen their 
horiions and include support for other 
hoards such as the new Avideo from 
Checkmate. Only time will tell., but if any 
developments, occur you'll be 
the lirst to know... 




A Ham rvnmptt sfror Imtant Image 



A. daak mtffflorJwi captured fwrtter 



ARexx 
capabilities 



Like all the latest high power hardware 
and software combinations, Vlab 
an impressive range of ARexx 
commands that cover all the system's 
major functions. Perhaps the biggest 
impact is made by the potential ARexx 
control of the software's sequential 
grabbing option. 

With a relatively simple ARexx 
script, an impressive stop frame 
recording sequence should be simplic- 
ity itself. The software has a complete 
poll-down dedicated to ARe*x macros, 
live of which come as standard with iL. 
Abo, ARexx can be addressed directly 
from the software via yet another pull- 
down-inspired control panel which 
allows you to execute additional 
ARexx scripts manually. 

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REVIEWS... POPULOUS II ■ ELVIRA THE ARCADE GAME SHADOWLANDS 

CRIME CITY GOLDEN EAGiE • BIG RUN BUDGET ROUNDUP 
ALSO... ANOTHER WORLD SOLVED HMV TALKING SHOP ON WORD * 




Gamer survived fat foreigners and billions of insane marathon runners 
just to bring you the news from the ECTS in London 



Core blimey! 



One of the highlights at ECTS was finding out mar there n going to be a sequel to 
Chock Rot*, Choc* Rock 2 - Son Of Chuck features, as you might guess from me 
title. Chuck Junior. 

Chuck Junior's task is to rescue his father who has been kidnapped by Chuck's 
maun business rival, Brwfc. Jagger. We aw a rolling demo of it at the show and it 
looks even better than the original game. 

Chuck 2 uvjlr be a five-level runaround and features more fun and japes than a 
Cany On film. It'll be in the shops around Movembef, and the price a still to be 
announced. 

That's alt ages away, but next from Core Design comes Premiere, a horizon- 
tally-strolling platform game from tne same team that brought you the Gamer 
Gold-rated, role-playing classic, Hetmdair. 

Played over six levels,* the action centres around a film editor called Clutch 
.Gabte [art arf art]. Clutch has to find a film which has been stolen from h« cutting 
room floor on the eve of its premiere - hence the title. 

So its up to Clutch to search through six different studio sets, ranging from a 
western, a horror, a fantasy and a cartoon through to a B-movie and a tjlart^nd- 
white set. We saw the game running & the show and it looks brilliant. 

Premiere will be out at the beginning of July far a measly £25.99 





Hands up who thought the British Frim 
Industry was dead? Welt to prove all 
you doubters wrong The Lawnmower 
Man - which was produced by London- 
based company Allied Vision - has 
arrived in Hollywood. 

"Pre film entered the US film charts at 
the number two slot, closely behind 
Wayne's World, Having cost only id 
million to produce and taken $17.5 mil- 
lion dollars in its Frrst ten days, you 
lenow that somebody, somewhere is sit- 
ting on a big stash of cash. 

The film itself is an adaptation of the 
Stephen King short story of the same 
name, and it s tne first to tackle the. sub- 
ject of virtual reality. 

The story goes a brt Nke this. A scien- 
tist played by a guy called Pierce Bros- 



nan (who?) uses special technology 
which participants can be made to 
believe that they arc actually GJtpererx- 
mg life in a computer-produced artificial 
world. He utiriscs his knowledge to help 
a gardener - who has the mind of a 
small child - to educate himself 

Disaster strikes and the gentle gar- 
dener becomes a super-intelligent mad- 
man who has virtual reality sex sessions 
with the town beauty [oooei. missusJ 
and eventually takes control of the local 
community, 

I suppose ail you readers are scream- 
ing: "This is a computer news page, not 
a blooming film reviewl" Weir calm 
down because here comes the com- 
puter news. 

The Sales Curve, the company who 
produced Indy Heat, Rodland and 
SW1V. have signed up the worldwide 
rights to all computer console and rm* 
timedia formats. 

The good news is that The Lawn- 
mower Man is due for release In June 
with the video following six months 
later, The bad news is that the com- 
pute/ game won't be- released until the 
Spring of 1991 Nobody knows what 
kind of game it will be, but it'll definitely 
be one to watch out for. 



Nothing Is Zoo! 






Gremlin's, most unusual release yet couW be one of the games of me year, Zoof - 
The Nlnja or the Nth Dimension looks as though it could be the Amiga equivalent 
of Mario and Some 

The game will feature full-screen scrolling (wool), stunning graphics |gaspl], 
incredible gamepfay [guspf|, audibfe music jyowserslj and sizzling sanlx |wowlj 

Well that's what the 
» press release sarys, and 
you know what? They 
could be right. 
Garner saw a 'small 
demo of Zool months 
ago .and since then it 
has come on leaps and 
bounds - it's looking 
quite splendid- Only 
God knows what ZodI 
will be about - all we 
know is that the little 
chappie Is an alien 
nmja. 

Zool will feature seven 
world i, each contain- 
ing three levels with different maps and puzzles to complete. Zool will be sweet in 
the sweet world, musical in the muac world, fruity in the fruit world and in the 
tool world he'll be, err .well, let's leave it there shaH we? 

Zool will fre out in July and will cost ten pence. OK. so If J not ten pence, out 
that's because the price is still to he announced. 




I've got the power 

Lone i el's newest is an action- 



kind of game, entitled Jim Power. 
Oh dear, the President's daughter 
is being held to ransom by 
Vulkhor. the devil of the mutant 
planet. 

In exchange to a weapon that 
will enable him to rule the uni- 
verse. Vufthor will let the Presi- 
dent's daughter go. If his 
demands are not met. he will turn . 
her into a salivating mutant - not 
a pleasant experience. 

But if his demands are met, 
tne lives of billions of people are at risk. Hmmm, a bit of a tough decision that. I 
know - let's send in Jim Power, wearer or clean underwear and all-round good 
guy, He'll save the universe and Ok President's daughter. 

Right, this next bit will only impress the true technical people among you. Jim 
Power features three Jewels with three piay fields and two levels with 12 levers ol 
depth. It aJI runs at 50 images a second. 

I don't Know - it all sounds like French to me. There sf(t \2 sets of music by 
Chris Huefibeck, who was the guy who created the music for Turrwan The game 
also boasts mare than 200 colours on-screen, We played the demo/p/eview of 
levei one, and we were suitably impressed. 

Jim Power will be out at the end of April for E25.99 and you can expect a full 
review of it next month, probably 



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Ugg ugg ugg 

They're crazy, intelligent, Tunny and cute, They're The 
Humans, and they're about to become the chapters of IW2. 

The Humans is a comic took at the evolution of mankind. Set 
m prehistoric times, the game allows you to shape the species 
into what we are today. 

There are 1 00 levels, each with a diflerent challenge, Chal- 
lenges range from the easy to the very difficult - for instance, 
you might have to discover fire one minute, then go and 
invent the wheel ifte next. 

won't be easy, especially with other human tribes 
'vnv^ing your human; and, of course, there are man-hungry 
dinosaurs to contend witfi. 

From what we've seen of it, Mirage Software Could well 
have a winner on their hands, The Humans will be available at 
the end of May at E29.99. Expect a preview or even a revtew 
m Gamer very soon, 




The slug bug 



Slimy, slippery and err, sluggy. 
Steg the Slug is Codemasters' 
great new cartoon puzzle 
game. Set deep underground 
in a series of dan* caverns. 
Steg 5 aim is to keep as many 
of his babies alive as possible. 

To do this, he must ensure 
a supply of tneir favourite 
food - maggot*. Steg can 
slither along platforms, cfimb 
walls and even slide along 
ceilings blowing bubbles to 
trap the speedily crawling 
maggots. 

Once trapped in bubbles, 
the maggots float and Steg 
has to give chase and blow 
them into the babies' nest. 
Sounds easy r doesn't if Well 



you're wrong, Each cavern is 
full of hazards and traps, sta- 
lactites and stalagmites plague 
the caverns along with vk»ous 
beiJows which pump air 
through the tunnels 

Jo make things easier. Steg 
can collect special icons and 
power up wich reboot legs, jet 
packs, speed-ups and many 
more. In fact, this is Codemas- 
ter's greatest game yet. The 
cartoon graphics are brilliant, 
rt's ftighfy addictive and very 
playable. Priced at a very 
cheap £7.99, Steg will be m 
the shopj very soon. 

Of course there will be a 
full review in Gamer very 
soon, 




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was the last time you 
played a decent war 
game? I bet you haven't played a 
good one For years. In fact the 
last war game I can remember 
was Airborne Ranger from Micro- 
prose, SO it comes .11 no surprise 
that Special Fa rcei is from the 
same company, 

Mlcroprose are ultimately 
famous for their simulation games 
such as Formula One Grand Prix, 
Knights of the Sky, F-19 Stealth 
Fighter and even Mirroprose Golf. 
" you want a ti mo I at ion game, 

en these are the dudes to get it 
rom. 

Special Forces is sort of a mix 

tween watching Rambo and 
thewtler national Chess Champi- 
onships. Its a shoot em up with a 
hefty bit of strategy thrown In for 
good measure. 

You get to control a squad of 
eight butch, hard, kick-ass. your 
mother wouldn't like 'em soldiers, 



You can only take four men Into 
action at a time and each one has 
different attributes. 

For instance, if one mission 
asks you to blow up something, 
you'd obviously be better picking 
Mike Kolowsky who's an explo- 
sives expert rather than choosing 
someone who just looks ard. 

Once you've decided who 
you re going to take to the war- 
zone, you have to give them 
assigned codenames, choosing 
from the not very original list of 
Shark, Cobra, Tiger and Eagle. 

J suppose changing the butch 
codenames doesn't look good in 
the middle of a fire fight deep In 
enemy territory, especially when 
your boss shouts "Ol Dingbat, 
take point, and Fiat eared 
Racoon, you form a pincer move' 
merit with me". Rather than die 
from a hail of bullets, the enemy 
b going to die from laughter. 

flight, you ve chosen your four 
men - they now need something 



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missions available to each squad. 
The missions are set in four areas 
of the world - Tropics, Desert, 
Arctic and Temperate. 

There are several things to see 
and do in each mission, in fact I 
could even be Judith Chalmers for 
this next bit, 

"Hello and welcome to Wish 
You Were Here, This week I'm off 
to the desert to a secret location 
to do a bit of tank-busting, and 
Bob Holness - our star holiday 
reviewer - is off to the tranquil 
tropics to rescue a prisoner of 
war. 

Well as you can see, it's ail fun 
and games here. Now to the Arc- 
tic for our first report, where../ 

Each mission has a clearly 
defined objective, so if the mis- 
sion report says that you have to 
blow up some fueJ dumps, you 
have to go and Mow up some fuel 
dumps. 

Working out what you have to 
do Is dead simple - actually 
achieving it is whole different ket- 
tle of fish, it's war owt there 



chaps! The enemy aren't going to 
let you walk Into their camp, blow 
up some fuel dumps and walk out 
again, oh no. They more often 
than not outnumber you a hun- 
dred to one, and each one of the 
enemy soldiers Is after your 
blood. 

To help you in your guest, 
thankfully, there are big guns for 
you to use- Maybe you'd like an 
off-t he-shoulder lee-En field rifle 
or maybe a lovely Engager 
Machine rifle or even both. To be 
honest, once you've kitted out 
your squad with all their, err, 
umm kit then it really is off to 
war. 

On every mission you are 
"dropped 1 off" by a helicopter and 
you get to decide the "drop 
points" by using the ever-present 
and highly useful map. The map 
shows you all the buildings, 
roads, rivers, bridges, Piiza Huts 
local places of interest and even 
where your main target Is by 
plonking a little white circle 
round it, 

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the map lights up with loads of 
little red dots- It realty ii quite ter- 
rific to watch {those red dots are 
actually the last known where- 
abouts of the enemy soldier* - 
Ed). Oh dear, are they? Whoops, 
never mind, they still look dead 
good. 

Once out of the map option, 
you view your squad from up 



If you have ever seen the excel- 
lent Alien ireed by Team i 7. then 



but smaller. 

Now you might be pondering 
the question "how do you control 
four members of the team at the 
same time?" and the answer Is, 
you don't. You can only control 
one Hambo at a time, but you can 
put your team In formation. Then 
when you move your team mem- 
ber, the rest of the team will fol- 
low him about. 

You can swap and change 
between team members by hitting 
the F-Keyi. A handy option is 
Multi-View, which allows you to 
view afl four team members at the 
same time - sort of like a four- 
team University Challenge view. 



but without flamber Gascotgne. 

lf you are a sort of. wefl how 
can I put It, ttr, lazy git, then 
there is an autopilot mode. You 
know when you're playing a flight 
aim and you just can t he both- 
ered (o fly the plane hundreds 
and hundreds of miles? You just 
stick on the autopilot, set the 
waypoints and hey presto!, you 



minutes- 
Well the principal is exactly the 



nirtg through dense jungle shoot- 
ing, so you set each team mem- 
bers a destination point, press the 
spacebar and the computer takes 
over. 

Well that s basically It. You 
choose your mission, men and 
weapons, enter the warzone, run 
around Tor a bit, waste a few 
enemy soldiers, complete your 
objective, get picked up by the 
helicopter, go home in time lor 
Coronation Street, congratulate 
your men by giving them a couple 
of decorations and even a promo- 
tion, have a few beers, go to bed 
and get ready for the next mis- 
sion, Hurrah. 




Overall, Special Forces \i a bit 
of a larf. My word, it t fun run- 
ning round deserts and jungles 
killing the enemy and blowing 
things up- OK, the graphics aren i 
going to make you reap out of 
your seat and shout "arroogggaa ". 
but they serve their purpose. 

In fact the Intro is quite good 
graphics-wise, but the intra music 

t* ,id*ll late w a i_r If- fAiinrif Jl C 



though it's been loosely based on 
the A-Team theme music. In the 



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machine gun noises and big beefy 
explosion noises. 

Payability is brill. For instance 
at one point you might be wan- 
dering arourxl the jungle by your- 
self, when suddenly enemy sol- 
diers appear from nowhere and 
you have to leg it as fast as you 
can because you've run out of bul- 
lets. It's exciting stuff, this war 
business. 

I don t know why I liked Special 
Forces, Maybe it was because it 
brought out my fighting instincts 
and that I knew I couluVt die, but 
when one of my team members 
was captured in the desert It 
brought tears to my eyes. 





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I *m abseiling, I 
am flbsiillnd, 
*troiJ the MIL. 
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jungle realty 

I instantly planned revenge - I 
went back Into enemy territory, 
rescued my soldier and then I 
blew most of the enemy camp 
apart. 

Boy. was I happy. J think you 
probably know the sort of feeling 
you get from Special Forces by 

Special Forces, even though it's 



stilt one of my current faves. Buy 
it now or Dan will come round to 

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It's time to set off to those sun- 
drenched islands in the Pacific 
Ocean. Just thin* of it - the 
warm climate, the sea, the white 
torches and [he hordes of commie infil- 
trators for you to blast into p&lrvion. 
This is my kind of tire, 

Pacific Islands (PI from nqw anj is the 
serjuer to Empire's earlier tanfc game, 
Team Yankee. However, there are a few 
changes to the game which make it 
even more playable 

The scenario has it that a large force 
of disaffected Soviet communists., anted 
hy the Morth Koreans, hare invaded the 
Pacific atoll of Yama Yama. 

Now this is quite unfortunate due to 
the fiicl that Varna Yama is a cormmuni- 
cations fink for the early warning moni- 
toring system in the Pacific Ocean, so 
the United Nations is understandably 
concerned about secret - and blaomm' 
expertise - comrnunicatrans equipment 
falling into enemy hands 

This is wnere you come in. You must 
assemble a team of tank units, four in 



all. which will be the spearhead of the 
first offensive, and you must necapture 
all live islands of me atoll to succeed, 

You start on the isJand Afoba which 
you must traverse, destroying enemy 
installations and communications, m 
well as other commie tanks 

However, unlike Team Yankee, you 
actually have to purchase your tanks 
dnd their ammunition. Von are initially 
given a budget of S55 million to spend 
(that's not much - Biff spends twice that 
on T-shirts - Ed) but you are able to 
gain more money during the game by 
destroying enemy installations and veht- 
cles. 

The enemy shoot back too though, 
so after each battle you can purchase 
replacement tanks for those that have 
been destroyed, repair damaged tanks 
and even increase the morale of your 
crew by having a tame-up. 

All of this costs money unfortunately, 
so at some point you will find yourself 
running short. This It where you have 
the- dubious option of selecting second- 






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The Pacific Island lank formation team. What grace, whal prerition 



that will teach him to call my tank a Skoda 

hand vehicles rnstead of brand new 
machines. 

I can just picture it - a big sign out- 
side a heavily fortified building wrth the 
words "Stormin' Norman's Used War- 
mongering Ware. Lowest Prices 
Around' written on ft. 

Each of the ftw islands you will be 
fighting on are split up into square 
zones. Blue coloured zones are free 
from enemies, allowing unrestricted 
passage to other parts of the island, 
while red zones indicate an enemy 
presence. 

Upon entering a red zone, you will 
be taken to the purchase screen to buy 
your equipment, or repair vehicles dam- 
aged m a previous battle prior to 
engaging the enemy, 

You are then given the mission 
description which lists the objectives to 



overcome m order to liberate that zone 
When you have accomplished your mis- 
sion, the red 2one will turn yetow and 
you are free ta move to the ne>! 
square. 

One of the reasons why I enjoyed 
Team Yankee so much was because * 
was game orientated rather than being 
a pure simulation. So the ability to 
choose your path through an i store 
makes for a more strategic game 

for Instance, it is important that you 
(Tiake ynur way to enemy-held rone; 
which also contain communications 
equipment in order to destroy the trans- 
mitters If you fail to do this fairly eaty 
on, you will find that the enemy win 
know of your location and you win be 
faced with increasing opposition mak- 
ing your life potentially rather short 

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This is the quadrant view which allows ail four 
d If played 

slightly more ince^esting than Team 
Yankee's rather linear approach to the 
play, while at the same time not being 
too much or a brain drain tP destroy 
the shoot-'errvtip reel. 

The artillery support feature, where 
ypu can arrange for HE jhigh enplo- 
5Fve|, DPICM |Duel Purpose Improved 
Conventional Munitions! and SMOKE 
shews to be fired at certain; times on spe- 
cific areas, has a new addition with Hie 
ability to lay mines at critical areas on 
the map. 

You have to remember where you 
put iftem [hough. otherwise you might 
find yourself trundling inadvertently 
over them only to find you are sud- 
denly a vehicle short, 

The control system in PI Is almost 
identical to its predecessor, with a few 
minor additions. This fs a good thing 
because the control system in Team 
Yankee was excellent and easy to use 
JO any major changes weren't required, 
if you have played Team Yankee, 




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you wtJI quickly he able to get into the 
game without having to wade through 
the manual beforehand. 

For those of you who have not 
played Team Yankee, the 30 graphics 
are quite excellent. Nat only do you 
have vector graphics but all vehicles are 
bitmapped, This gives greater detail 
inan that achievable through vectors 
and improves the appearance of each 
vehicle infinitely. The actual 3D routines 
haw been speeded up quite a bit and 
you are also able to destroy any object 
in the 3D view. 

Because of the increased 3D speed, 
you will now occasionally come across 
a whole village, rather than solitary 
buildings.. Such an object would have 
slowed down Team Yankee consider- 
ably. You will also find that the ene- 
mies' intelligence has been improved 
too, making them harder to overcome 
joh buggerj. There are no changes in 
the sound effects department, which «s 
no bad thing at all with the usual 



tar*, or "ve nm a good strafing with 
your machwie gun 

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quteaMandtenjc^piiywigrYTbe - 
improved speed in graphics and the 
abMy to blast everything m sight makes 

me game great fun. 

The packaging includes it* full 
colour maps, of tf* islands, wfwh mart 
key features such as roads, communica- 
tions and nvers. helping you to plan 
your strategy. The manual s we« writ- 
ten, making it easy for those new to the 
gan-e to quickly get into the action. 
There is also a Training" Bland for you 
to practice on. 

is rt my imagination, or &fe software 
companies beginning to realise thai 
people with hard drives exist and play 
games too? Empire have thoughtfully 
provided a installation program on the 
game disks for those of you with such 
hardware. Nice one, Empn. 

So, if you h.we already sampled the 
delights of Team Yankee, you will not 
be overly disappeared at what Pi has 

to offer. 

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i'no that'i Astro you tool - Edl 




o you remembej Ahen 
i Breed? Yes, of course you 
do. it got a Gamer Gold way 
back In January and for d long Dime it. 
was a firrner-than<firrn favourite rn the 
Gamer office 

Now from 
Team 1 7 comes 
Project K a nr> 

nansense shoot-' em -up, and 
thank God it's got absolutely 
nothing to do wrth that bobbins 
film of the same name, starrrng 
Matthew Broderick, 

I don't (snow whether you | 
realise this or not, but there I 
hasn't been a detent shoot- 
'em-up for the Amiga since 
Xenon 2. Maybe Its because the whole 
games industry thought that Xenon 2 
was just so good it couldn't tie bettered 
- boy, how wrong they were. 

Vou take a walk down to your local 
arcades and what do you see but a 
whole Pony toad of sboot-'em-ups, most 
of them or vepf high quality. You spend 
your ten pennies [Well, it's 50 pennies 
these days|. go home to your Amiga, 




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and any snoot-'ern-up you pJay after 
that pales m comparison. Team 1 7, a 
highly intelligent bunch of lads, bad the 
idea Tor doing a "crassJc' sboot-'em-up 
because they too were disappointed 
with the state 
of the current 
crop. 

S o 
they went intD their 
dark cupboards for 
months on end, writing 
play testing, untri Pro- 
ject X was bom. 

The major difference 
between Project X and 
other shooi-em-ups is 
that Project X is 1 meg 
only, so that means more memory for 
better graphics and sound and, of 
course, almost every Amiga owner 
nowadays has I meg or more 
squidged in their machine, 
So the question chat 
begs to be answered is 
"Is Project X any good?' 
Well, I'm going to keep 
you in suspense over that one, 

because every 
shoot-'em-up has a 
awful story to go 
with it, Project X 
being no different, 

Some stupid sci- 
en tuts were mess- 
ing around doing 
bio-mechanical 
experiments using 
some pretty power- 
ful X-rays when 
ihey created some 
massive mutated 
insect-Tike droids. 
It was a severe 




case erf: 'Oh dear, we seem to of tre- 
ated some various mutated insects. Let's 
dump them on the planet Ryxjc and 
hop? they degenerate and fide out of 
existence.' 

Of course, things don t run true to 
plan - (he insects not only survive but 
thrive. Their computer intelligence cir- 
cuits are corrupted and they set off 
seeking revenge. 

You work for the space federation, 
and you're the dude who's been 
assigned to deal with the mutant 
insects - surprise surprise! Your mission 
is to fly to Ryxx in the heart erf Ibe sta- 
tion where the evil insects have made 
their Fair, and blow the whole thing sky 
high. 

I don't really need to explain how to 
pLiy the game - its fairly obvious - but 
for tne slightry dim I will explain - very 
briefly. 

it's a six-level sideways 
scroller Nke R-Type. You controf 
a ship and shoot waves of 
Insects with your guns, which 
can be powered up by collect- 
ing pills. There you go, simple as 
pre. 

Overall ftoject X is one of the finest, if 
not the finest shoot-'em-up available on 
the Amiga. It's got mouth-watering 
graphics, and except for the bonus 
stages, all the graphics are in 32 
colours. 

Sound-wise, your ears && going to 
take a real battering. It all kicks Off With 
a brilliant rave tune, which pees all over 
the latest offerings from Oceanic and 
Altern 8, If you hate rave music then 
there is a unique 'ofd timer' mode, 
where yout ears will meflow out to 
some soothing flute musit . 

in the game there is no musit, but 



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sands - wefl. dozens 
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a fantastic array of digi- 
tised speech throughout 
the game. 

It's as addictrve as something quite 
addictive indeed. Words don't really do 
Project X justice - you have to see it to 
believe it. J suggest you run to the 
shops and buy it. and if you haven't got 
any money, stear it - In fact get this 
game any way you can. 

Project X is brill. 

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OK. everyone knows that 
our Jass Elvira has got a 
large chest but on the 
grounds of decency mis review win be 
a breast-free zone, flus I used up ail 
my immature "chest" puns in last 
month's review pf Elvira - The 
Arcade Game, 

Ypu may well remember 
Elvira's first computer 
appearance a year and a 
halt ago - Elvira: Mistress 
of the Dark - and you 
might also remember 
(hat the computer press 
fell in love with her and 
the game. 

J didn't actually play 
the rirst game, bur I 
heard a tot about n Dan 
and Darren have both 
played rt and they assure 
me that it was 'all right' 
Look at that, they're both 
fuNy-fledged games review- 
ers and they s^y in "all right*. 

They could have said: 
"Blimey, the first Elvira, that was a 
bit pf a stonker. it oozed payability, 
it dribbled addiction, the gory graphics 
were that good i nearly wet myself." 
Hrnmir J cfon't know, you just can't get 
the staff these days. 

Mow we go straight to two bods at 
Accolade having an m-depth char 
abotjt Elvira and her. er, amazing 
adventure games. 

'Blimey that first Elvira game was a bit 
smart." 

"Yes j[ was. wasn't it? And it was her- 
alded as Rofe-pJaying Game of the 







Year.' 

'Was it?' 

"Yes it was, you noggin " 

"OK. tell you what - let's do another 

game featuring our busty chum." 

"Hmrri. but what can we do?" 

"Weil, perhaps we can do one where 



she runs around half- 
naked and ypu have to..." 
'Just stop it right now- Anyway, we drd 
that last time.' 

This time you get a choke of being a, 
er...' 
'Computer programmer?" 



Tea. smart one., a computer program- 
mer, and what else, urmnm " 
"Stuntman, just like Lee Majors." 
"Briin I don't know where you get 
these groovy ideas (rami 
"What about a knife thrower - 
ves. my uncle's a knife 
thrower." 
"Er. OK then." 
To top it all off, you can 
be a ppnng private eye." 
'Oh npl Not a poncey 
private eye like Mag- 
num," 

"Ves. sorry it's in the 
Software Trade 

Descriptions Act." 
'What about a milk- 
man or a..." 

'Bight, J think that s 
enough people for 
now." 

"QIC where n it going to 
beset?" 

"Hmrn, that's a toughie." 
"Let's say that Elvira now 
owns a Hammer Horror film 
studio.' 
"Yesss, what a cool idea'" 
"And, and she gets kidnapped by, 
er..." 

"Bob Holness?" 
"Oh do behavef 
'Sorry." 

"You are forgiven. Hmm, now who can 
she get kidnapped by?" 
"Can't we just use the spooky evil force 
agarn?" 

'Hmm, it'JI just have to do. We haven't 
got much time." 
Tve got a coo) idedl" 
'What?' 




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■Well. this 
spoo*y evil force 
tan take over all 
the studio and 
the film sets and 
he can make all 
the props and 
spooky film stuff come alive and this 
can. like, scare people away and. like, if 
anyone comes after EMra these icary 
props can kill anyone who sticks friar 
nose JnT 

'I'm lost for words, that is Woody brill.' 
"Yeah and an ideal opportunity for a 
smart graphical goferest." 
"Am blood?" 

'Yea, buckets and buckets of the stuffl" 
"Hooray!" 

"What about the conrtrol system?" 
"Hrrnn.. do we change it or what?" 
"WeH sort of. let's just position the con- 
trols elsewhere and add a few extras 
lite. err... " 
"More spells'''' 

"Yep. more spells and loads of other 
widdry birj." 

"Now we both know that Elvira helps to 
sell the game, but how can we incorpo- 
rate her into the game if she's been kid- 
napped?' 

"Gc$h. I didn't think about that, flight 
OlC owe ffle a minute,.." 

[A minute passes, and then another, 
and another... J 

"Got itl Right, if whoever | S paying the 
game is doing really badly, then Elvira 
can mystically pop up and give you 
same cryptic advice.' 
"Sounds good to me. and don't forget 
the jiggles" 
"vVhatjiggies?" 
"You knowl" 

"Oh yes, those jjggfes, sorted." 
"Bingol" 

"Marvellous, how do we do ft?" 
"One other thing though - what are 
we going to call it?" 
'Elvira IT 

No, it hasn't got enough, you know, 
enough umrnmffi-" 
"What about EfvJra 2 - The .laws of 
'Death? 1 

"Nope that's far too naff, how about a 
word that doesn't rerate to the game 
but sounds dead good." 
"Hoffinggiathzag?" 

'Naaah, too unpronounceable. What 
about Cerber?' 



Ere I don't. 
f*ncy yfiun 
much, a bit 
on the 

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for me 



"Hmm, J like it Bit 
short though. 
Cerber, Cerber, 
Cerberus - yan- 
kee doodle 
dandy. I've got it* 
Cerberus!" 

"Vessss, let's tell the other! and get on 

with the game.' 

So, that's how games are made, it 
obviously requires a lot of time and skill. 

Elvira 2 is kmda like Elvira 1 but, it's 
got slightly better graphics. The control 
system is the same, but it's got loads 
more sperls and a completely useless 
motion [/acker that tells you where 
your enemies are. I couldn't make it 
out. but maybe that's because I wasn't 
that interested in the moCKwi tracker. 

Mo, I had other things troubling my 
mmd. Inke big beasties trying to eat me 
alrve. That's in the game, of course, not 
in real life - well maybe Dan could be 
described as a big beastie. but I doubt if 
he really is one, 

Overall. Elvira 2 Is well worth buy- 
ing. It's not as if I'm a press officer for 
Accolade, but just check this out... 

Graphically it's a dream - everything 
is drawn well and you can work out 
what all the things are. The control sys- 
tem becomes second nature after only 





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a few short minutes, thus making rhe 
game enjoyable to play. 

On the sound front there are quite 
a few tunes and ihey change depend- 
ing on whene you are in the game - for 
example, when you are m the grave- 
yard there is a really spooky tune which 
adds buckets of atmosphere to the 
game. You can easily lose yourself in a 
game like this - 1 found myself wander- 
ing around exploring and you know 
what? It's bloody great fun. 

Speaking of fun. there's plenty to be 
had in this so-called 'adventure' game, 
especially when you find 
the make-up 
room, but j'S 



III leave you to find that out for your- 
selves. Oh, and a hard drive is defi- 
nitely recommended because Elvira 7 
has a lovery six disks for you to swap 
and change. 

I don't know what really attracted 
me to the game [ahem, we do - Ed|. 
but once inside there is no escape - 
well, until it's time to leave the office 
and go home, anyway, 

Overall Elvira 2 is "all right", ha ha ha 
art art art. Oh dear. Dan put that mallet 
down, Da?, why are you carrying that 
Black and Decker power drill? Can't you 
guys take a joke.., 7 

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They're a morbid lot. these 
game designers. They always 
seem [o came up with "bleak 
future' scenarios for their games. For 
insiance, take the introductory story for 
Global Effect... 

"Perhaps in the not-too-distant 
future, governments; haw advanced 
beyond those of today, Control of cities 
and civilisations is handled from central 
control 1 points.' 

I don't know about you, but this 
summons up visions of computer-tori' 
trolled systems with megalomaniacs 
operating them. "Big brother" policies 
towards the papulation is the common 
method of social control and any antj- 
govemment attitudes will be severely 
dealt with, Yes. very bleak indeed. 

Mind you, it would seem pretty siily 
=ind inappropriate to have a story line 
that went something like this: 

'Perhaps in the not-too-distam 
future, governments will abolish raxes 
and depravation along with homeless- 
ness and wars. Everyone must wear 
towers in their hair and chant peace, 
rove and happiness. 

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appointed supreme overseer and cen- 
sor of all forms of media and her word 
is final. In fact, the world wilt be a very 
spiffing plate to live in indeed." 

You'd be hard-pressed to come up 
with a good game from this kind of 
background, wouldn't you? And if 
someone did come up with a game 
simulating such a world, I'd bet my 
entire collection of Mr fleart videos that 
that person woufd be French. 

Anyhow, the first scenario is that 
which appfies to Global Effect. It may 
be bleak, but it certainly does make for 
an interesting game. 

In essence, Global Effect is very 
much in the vein of 5im City You are a 



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government reader, assigned control of 
either a new or easting worJd, depend- 
ing on the options chosen at the start 
of the game. Your tasJc is to ensure the 
continued survival of both your people 
and the environment. 

You are grven Information about the 
status of your people and of the effects 
on the environment of any aclwns you 
take, such as clearing forests to expand 
your community or creation of oil or 
coal mines used to fuef power stations 
and so on, 

Depending on which scenario yaj 



chose at the start of the game, you may 
also have to contend with opposing 
parries who pose a threat to your own 
people- 
In this siluatjon. you have a number 
of military options to choose from. 
These include building control centres 
and early warning jadars. as well as 
constructing air and navaf bases with 
nudea oi conventional weaponry 

Of course, any nuclear conflict can 
also cause massive damage to the envi- 
ronment so this has to be taken into 
consideration before entering rnto a 
major battle. 
As mentioned earfier, there are a 



number of options co choose from that 
will decide your role and goals within 
the game. For instance, you can 
assume control of an existing colony, 
where prevrous leaders have ever-so- 
Slightfy buggered up and it is your job 
to repair the damage. Alternatively, yob 
can attempt a completely new com- 
mand, starting on a world of your 
choice. 

When playing the game, the screen 
display shows a portion of the map of 
the worfd which you are attempting, 
along with various command icons, 
message windows and status displays . 
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of icons which represent such oojects 
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This is represented by a bar on the 
far left of the screen and increases if 
your colony and the environment have 
a good fating, or decreases tf they have 
$ poor ruling, if g^me power gets to a 
low level, you may not 
be aWe to afford to build 
the required object 

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Objects on your lis: 
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choice of either oil-pow- 
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soiar-powered, wind-powered and ulti- 
mately, nuclear-powered stations. 

Of course, these have differing 
effects on Sue environment which must 
be taken into account, tort once a sta- 
tion is operational you can build power 
fines across the land to join up to city 
(tote 

When you build a city block, it wfll 
be dart, meaning there are no people 
in it. When you hoc* jt up to the power 
station via the power lines, it comes to 
fife. From there on, your city will tffigm 
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game power will start to decrease. 

As your cotony grows, it will start to 
require basic services such as waste 
recycling and water supplies. Any defi- 
ciencies in these areas contribute to a 
poor colony rating. There are ways of 
controlling the colony and these 
involve building city 
limits to prevent 
expansion beyond a 
certain pgynd? ry, 
thus keeping the 
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You can also use 
green belt bound- 
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more environmentally friendly and will 
add to your environment rating. 

To aid you in maintaining a bal- 
anced colony and environment, you 
have a number of information screens 
that help you decide uuhjf rneasures to 
take Via the environment f*nd eco- 
nomic data icon, you can receive infor- 
mation on such things as carbon diox- 
ide levels, ozone Fayer levels and air 
pollution, to name a few, 

There is also a seismic survey mode 
which allows you to search for natural 
resources for mining. You can view the 
entire world map here too. I enjoyed 



playing this game a tot. There's a fair 
amount to do, but not too much to 
make it overwhelming 

Of course, you are able to save your 
game should your ommpoBeni control 
of the people have to be postponed 
due to mum shouting dinner j r eady~ 

Sound effects are not abundant, but 
this doesn't detract from the game at 
all. 

What makes Gtobaf Effect so good is 
that everything you do has a knock-on 
effect on the environment and econ- 
omy, so you are kept on your toes all 
the time. Even natural disasters such as 
earthquakes can occur, causing unfore- 
seen damage to your colony. 

Once you master the wealth of con- 
trol icons, the game is very playable. 
You may find it a little frustrating at first 




when you get messages about prob- 
lems with your colony and you don't 
know why it's happening, but perse- 
vere and you'll be hooked. 

There is also my most favourite of 
features, the good o\' ability to play 
against a human opponent via serial 
Jink. Nice one. Millenium. 

If you liked Sim City, then this is the 

game for you. 

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Twelve new entries (hii 
month, fix climbers and 
twelve fillers. There s a 
new number one - Cede 
Marten Pint Division Man- 
ager goes top of the 
league. Following behind 
that. Ram bow Islands leaps 
a massive 25 places to the 
number two spot. 

The best newt of the 
month is that Team 1 7 - 
the team behind the highly 
successful Alien Breed - 
have scored Another chart 
success. Project X is a 
brand flew entry at number 
five and hopefully it will 
continue to Climb the 
chart. 

Other notable new 
entries are Space Crusade 
by Gremlin, Slack Crypt by 
Electronic Arts anef Shad 
owiands by Domark, I pre- 
dicted last month that 
Harlequin would enter the 
top 30 and guess what? 
Harlequin entered the 
Chart at number 21. Ha, 1 
Who said all my psychic 
power had run out? 

A big, big shock this 
month Ji the disappear- 
ance from the Top 30 of 
Populous 2, that great Cod 
game by Electronic Arts, 
And it was at number six 
at one point. 

Budgets continue to 
dominate., with I 9 games 
In the Top 30, but the full 
price game are beginning 
to make a healthy come- 
back. 

It's time for next 
month's predict ions. Dan 
has been quite sensible 
and gone for Project X, 
white because I m a bit of a 
gambler I think 111 go for, 
err, unm Harlequin, It 
probably won't be number 
one, but to improve my 
chances I order you readers 
to run out to the shops 
and buy it, but issh, don't 
tell Dan, I've got a tenner 
running on this bet,,, 

Oh no, I'm running out 
of space, I wonder if I've 
got enough space to tell 
you about the chicken and 
the celery incident? Well, 
one day this... 

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arbarians are. as a rule, fairly 
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how hard barbarians are. Another thing 

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minutes without deciding to avenge 
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shouting things and shaking their fists 
angrily at the boiling sbes and then leg- 
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ples heads off. Yes rney are a bit silly, 
but would you tell them? Thought not. 

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and slash game, there i a lot of pur 
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A good wording Knowledge of 
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magic weapun to kill it. 1 
get the magic weapons, yuul ha 
put yuui grey mattei into geai 

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tie are basically the unie 
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this bit brief. It i important thflt 
you gee tome extra weapons 
soon as possible to beef up your 
arsenal. 

If your* playing In two-player 
mode, try and get on either side 
of an enemy and knife him from 
both sides, This should hilt him 
nice and quickly. 

The two most important 
weapons are the rifle and the 
grenades. The rifle If the best 
weapon for seeing; off the guards, 
and the grenades take care of the 
men with Ifame-trirowers quite 
nicely. 

Be on the look out for extra 
fives. You pick them up by hiding 
in the scenery, and if you Find 
one you II hear a little ping and a 
"1 UP icon wilt float away. 

On the first section, there ar* 
two bonus fives quite near the 
end. Have a peep at the pieties to 
see exactly where. This should 
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to gel you through the next few 
levels. My advice is to keep hiding 
in every nook and cranny as you 
go along, until you find the ex 

Jives. H^^hjaieel ' 

There arc some other tricky bits 
to took out for. The dog on the 
second stroll ing section cannot be 
killed, even with grenades so just 
hide In the scenery until Ire's run 
past. Also be on Hie I 
the miperj in the bach 

Like the dog. they can't be 
killed, so here s what to do. Shuf- 
fle out Into his line of fire, and 
just before he shoots at you, roJl 
back into cover. Now quickly run 
past him. With practice, litis 
should get you past him with no 
trouble at afl. 



The Barracks 

Ihe first bgfiefing ya rest*- *ii' ** is Bursts $"? N leach Into ttw first in see 
tfOfi your tast here is to *?nt! SOTO irnootant fforuments whrr h wilt prove Miguel 
T.i-Hiez: guii' and all-round feTdbhriess 

Tne two most wnharwe (orations for ihe Suitcase, containing r^e documents are 
nortec! on me map wirh a ied ?pot. Fnter the room, anrl shoot the guard inside, 
[f rr>e dnru "ier.fi are 
there you li see a little 
■ flash leave t*e 
room and ytx '!' have ih; 
documents in your 
sweaty pawl. 

Remember that the 
guards always patrol in a 
set oamem. and will tend 
to go round and rnund 
[fie same biork Keep 
your eye on the lirr'e . 
map at the bottom of the 
screen to see where they go, and then lie in wnit for them. 

This apnlies to all the 3D tuts, so get used to aiming <ind firing your gun betoie 
they guard; inrtf and chnot you 

T*v tvesr tancs here are for one pfaver to go and get the dceurnenB, while 
the other takes cafe of the guards. Jf you're playing atone, then just go tor the 
documents and try to avmrt the guards. Once you've got the suitcase, head out 
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: and destroy T; rug supply 

stocks of filthy drug money 

Ajain. the rooms you should be 
heading for are marked with a dinky 
little red spar Be careful, as the 
guards will be patrolling those 

Ntf, 

lying uvrth two players, then 
obviously better if you handle 
' ore room each, whereas yngle play- 
ers are going to rave to be very cau- 
tious. 

To destroy the stocks, simply 
enter the room. There won't be any 
guards inside Now press Fi^> 
you'll chuck a bomb into the room 

Pop outside again. A col. 
seconds later you ll heat a nice big 
boom, and your job is done. With 
L jth targets eliminated, head for the 

lit and get ready tor some more 

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now, with 
jurt the fast mad if ash to the heit- 
copter to go. This scrolly bit is 
fairly short, but there ii a rather 
fiendish explosive hidden in the 
scenery. 

If you're not careful you could 
be hilled, 10 try and make sure 
you ve got enough lives left to 
camp? n sate. 

One*; you i« the chopper, run 
to ftBd you'll take off. All you 
da now is stop off on the 
_e roof to pick up Miguel. 
Hell probably have tried to 
escape so run after hint and he J I 
cone hopping back. Leap back 
into the talicopter, and fly off 
into the sunset for your mission 
analysis. Easy! 




The Cellhouse 

To get to this bit. you'll have to do a tut or dimbing [the doorways are blocked, 
y'see|. Simply stand In Front of the building, push up and fire to start climbing up 
tne side. 

Make sure you do it when there are no guards nearby or yau will probably De 
killed while you stand about 
swinging your grapple hook. 

The actual climbing bit 
couldn't be easier. Just waggle 
the joystick to climb, but 
remember m avoid the search- 
lights Once you reach the top, 
you're ini 

The actual cellhouse itself is 
the hardest 3D section of aN. 
Not surprising when you 
realise that this time pur target is Miguel Tardier, Mr Big Drug Baron himself! 

Expect loads of guards, and watch out for them sneaking up from behindl It's 
best to split up for this bit as you've got a lot of rooms to search. 

You see, Miguel is hiding in one of the cells Unfortunately, there are oodles of 
them to look through and his location appears to be different in every game 

the best way of finding him is to start at the bottom of a corridor, move for- 
ward one step, then tum left and enter the cell, go out, turn round, and go into 
the other cell, come out rrtove forward again, and so on. 

It'll take a while so it's safest rf you kill aN she patrolling guards before you start 
your search. 

When you find Tardiez. he'fi be lurking behind the scenery somewhere, but 
you'll know he's there 'cos there'll be a bodyguard in the cell 

Waste the bodyguard and out comes Miguel with his hands up, Leave the cell 
and he comes wfth you, in handcuffs, Go out of the exit and you'U leave Miguel 
[red up on the roof. 

Now you'll have to abseil down again. To do this, press Fire to slip down the 
wall and Fire to stop again. Don't slip too far or you'll die, and keep a look-out for 
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Af Stanford fcxr taf hei hit lift, one at tl» demon* jhOW" oft hij 
glowing hand party piecr, 

ands up who used to have 

a Spectrum. What a quaint 
little rubber beer- mat it 
was And some of the garnet were 
quite nippy rndeed. despite what the 
C64 snobs will tell you 

Some of the greatest games on the 
Specty tame from the almost criminalry 
talented hands Of Raf Cecco. He spe- 
cialised m shoot-'em-ups with gallons 
of colour and explosive sound. On the 
Spectrum, as welJ. Blimey. 

Exoton, Cyfcernoid, Cybetnoid 1 rind 
Storm lord were his biggest hits, and 
quite rightly too. Never had the poor 
old Sinclair witnessed such excitement. 
It was the closest thing to a "pfopef" 
game that us humble Spec-chums Mr 
got 

What, I heat you say. has this got to 
do with Deliverance? Well for those 
who haven't guessed. Deliverance is 
Stormiord. beefed up and rewritten in 
full colour Amigavision. Smashing. 

You take on the rote of the now QUI 
gatory Barbarian, and you nave to free 
a previously peaceful land from Satan 
and his totally bogus posse. 

Satan, or Stan to h*s mates, has kid- 



napped all the fairies. So not only has 
the wprtd been plunged into darkness 
and damnation, but nobody can do the 
washing up. So, up steps crave old 
Stormiord, and trundles off to pick up 
fairies (insert any old John Inrrtan joke 
here|. 

So. coincidence or what? No sooner 
have I calmed down and stopped palpi- 
tating over Myth, when up pop 2 1 st 
Century Entertainment with Deliver- 
ance, it's uncanny. Two games in the 
same month, and they're very, very sim- 
ilar 

As in Myth, Deliverance /equires you 
to don Turry boots and a shaggy 
hairstyle and chop your way through 
Hell to sort out some fiendish demonm 
bloke. And when you reach the tug 
baddie dude, you move from platform 
hack n' slash to fast moving shoot-em 
up action. Spooky, eh? 

So. the obvious comparisons, is 
Deliverance as goad 1 as Myth? Well, not 
quite, it's neck and neck on the graph- 
ics end sound front, but Myth's bigger 
and slightly more challenging. 

Is Deliverance as good as Gods? Yes. 
m fact it's tons better. The initial look is 




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the same, out Deliverance doesn't bog 
itself down with fancy Al routines for 
the baddies. In fact, it's sheer bad luck 
that Myth and Deliverance have come 
out at the same time. Had Deliverance 
come out fast month, things might 
have been different, but sometimes life 
can be so cruei. 

You see. Deliverance has got abso- 
lutely exquisite graphics. Yes. that's 
what they are. Exquisite. And the 
sound is nice and chunky But. unfortu- 
nately, Myth's got both of those as well 1 
and it's got a puzzly element to it. 
which just gives it the edge. 

Thafs not to say that Deliverance iJ a 
loser. No, no. Nobody goes home 
empty-handed on this show, and Deliv- 
erance wins our "Excellent Platform 
Slash- Em-Up But Not Quite As Good 
As Myth" award. 

Oh, I feel so guiity about this. You 
can't believe the personal anguish this 
is causing me. Under normai circum- 
stances, i'd love this game. In a really 
deep and meaningful way. We'd have 
candleht dinners, walks on the beach, 
romantic weekends in the Pea* District, 
a lovefy wedding and some kids, and 
then settle down for a long and happy 
hfe together. 

Unfortunately. Myth came along first 
and score my heart away, ill still carry a 
torch for Deliverance though. It'll 
aiwayi be special to me Oh, my heart 
is breaking I m sorry Deliverance, you 
came along too late. Maybe rf face had 



beautiful music together. But if you 
don't fancy Myth, then by all means 
give this a look, it could be the start of 
a beautiful friendship... 

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In a capital city still sporting the obvi- 
ous scars ot decades ol destruction 
and forced segregation, whose two 
peoples retain enough ol the siege men- 
tality to view each other with suspicion 
and sometimes even mild hostility,, the 
notion of holding a jolly little Amiga 
show might seem a bit strange. 

The Berlin Amiga 92 Show, however, 
was united and vibrant enough to throw 
up some interesting new releases and 
not a few insights on the European and 
Gorman Amiga scenes. 

The German TV market is dominated 
by small and medium-sized cable and 
satellite stations, many of whom use 
Amigas- for their stock-in-trade produc- 
tion graphics. It was hardly surprising, 
therefore, to find a show and a market- 
place given over mostly to the Amiga's 
role as a video workstation. 

The number of stands exhibiting the 
machine side by side with professional 
Betacam SP video editors would alone 
have supported this impression had it 
not been for the proliferation of gen- 
locks, DCTVs, and AVideo cards being 
put through their paces at the same 
time. 

New products recently released or 
previewed at the show included the 
Supra Faxmodem, Rainbow II 24-bit 
graphics card (selling for the equivalent 
of £595), Commodore's AfiOQHD, the 
Golem TurboCard GfrOJO accelerator for 
ASOOs (first to fit in the external bus'), 



Vortex's AT3B6SX emulator board, 
Checkmate Digital's Hi-Q tower system 
(vying with Golem's tower for the Tallest- 
Amiga-at-lhe-Show award), CanDo vl-6, 
and a host of products of newer and 
older origin. 

One very interesting low-tost accelera- 
tor released at the show was the Harditat 
Big Bang and its bigger brother, Super 
Big Bang, The former is a 2$lvlHz/2:SMHz 
6B030 With 2Mb HAM selling for 
DM1 ,090 (about £385), the latter being 
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at DM1,340 (£4 71). 

Price war 

At these prices, such cards could clean up 
the UK accelerator market overnight, and 
If the 68040/4Mb version is released, as a 
Hardital spokesman suggested it might, 
for less than £1,000, we could see the 
most beneficial high-power price war 
ever. Not for nothing have Hardital chris- 
tened the card "Over the Top". 

We had to be helped off the floor 
when we strayed in front of a stand sell- 
ing the A3.0GQ/25 complete with 52Mb 
hard drive For £1,100, and when we later 
learned the price had fallen to £900 it 
was off to the bar to cry into 2weJ grow 
bien in lament for the poor overcharged 
British consumer. 

Similar throat-cutting was in evidence 
as A500 Plus prices fell towards the £200 
mark and DCTVs started a run on the 
£250 barrier, so much so that iwei more 




ffc* taryr it tliualtf toniltpoled fnrntogr of AMK halt I 



gross biers were needed to calm us down, 
Thank Cod we'd left our credit cards at 
home.. 

As a companion to all this hardware, 
the software side was relatively muted, 
with Imagine v2.0 and Caiigari Broadcast 
hogging most of the limelight on the 
videography stands. 

From the demonstration tapes splat- 
tered across numerous monitors, it was 
fairly clear that a large proportion of the 
average German TV viewer's day is spent 
watching Amiga generated images from 
the Caiigari or Imagine duo. 

Adept Development were showing 
their Painter 3D package and TVPaint was 
making its ominous debut on the AVideo 
board, but neither seems as yet to have 
made the impact of the big two, and Real 
3D was surprising Iv nowhere to be seen, 

Both the main contenders directly sup- 
port DCTV 
which was sell- 
ing by the 
Volkswagen 
load, so the 
boom towards 
home 24-bit 
video production 
seems well and 
truly on in 
Europe. 

In true never- 
say-die fashion, 
the A1 OQO made *■"*■' * -**■ °* ""i™" 
s spirited appearance in the shape ol the 
Phoenix Ressurection board (iic), a com- 
plete motherboard replacement designed 
to give the oldest Amiga the same specifi- 
cations as the latest models. 

The board comes complete with ECS, 
2Mb RAW, internal SCSI optional fitting, 
a co-processor socket, and Kickstart ROM 
sharer. The A500 and A2000 were, of 
course, the best supported machines in 
terms ol peripherals, but it speaks well of 
the German market that A5Q0 add-ons 
did not totally engulf the Dthers as is so 
often the case at ASOO-dominated British 
shows. 

Bargain hunters were happily walking 
off with A2000 52Mb Quantum hard 
cards for as little as £280, and the num- 
ber of beaming customers we saw clutch- 



ing what would in Britain be rare pur- 
chases, such as 24-bit boards and accel- 
erator cards, was out-weirded only by the 
sight of hungry punters demolishing 
what looked suspiciously like oily feather 
bolsters stuck between two mattresses 
dipped in bread crumbs, but which on 
closer inspection turned out id be 
aggressively proportioned sausage sand- 
wiches. 



Spurned 




Subdued to begin with, busy towards the 
end, and spurned by Commodore. 
Amiga Berlin, shouldn't have been a suc- 
cess. 

That it managed in the space ol what 
would be a normal-sized British show to 
display more high-end equipment than 
you might see in a year in London is a 
testament both to the higher purchasing 
power enjoyed 
by German con- 
sumers and the 
more developed 
nature of the 
Amiga ma diet in 
central Europe. 

The British 
market will no 
doubt develop 
this year in the 
video direction 
as DCTV and 

the low-end video market to comple- 
ment Harlequin and company at the 
upper reaches ol 21-bit quality. 

Whether it will do so fast enough is 
hard to tell, but one thing is clear - 
falling prices are inevitable. 

Commodore UK will continue to rec- 
ommend that the Amiga be sold at its 
own retail price, but if enough of the 
larger retailers take advantage of the 
cheap machines appearing on the conti- 
nent, Commodore could be chopped off 
at the knees and the high street forced to 
exert pressure if they are to avoid losing 
vast swathes of sales to mail order. 

On the other hand, this prediction 
could be as accurate as the BBC's exit 
poll, so we'll just have to 
wait and see, won't we? 

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Millie was sketched by a chap called Peter 
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If you listen to more lhan one conversa- 
tion about accelerator boards, iL quk_kly 
becomes clear that there's not a lot. to 
be said about them unless you enjoy the 
sight of your frwnds collapsing at your feel 
In a bored stupor. 

They- are fast, usually provide space for 
extra RAM, the odd really exciting one has a 
hdf d drive inlertdce built in, and that's it. 

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available is now wide enough to provide a 
proper buyer's choke for the Amiga's most 
powerful add-on, unlike a year ago when 
ihey were thinner on the ground than 
Corbachev supporter!. 

There arc only three important question* 
lo ask of any 040 card: 






• How fast is it? 

• How stal-i- 

• How cheap is It? 



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We tested the fusion forty card from RCS 
Management Inc, GVP's C-Force, and 
Progressive Peripherals'' Mercury, all of them 
2SMH; cards, and asked the same three 
questions about each. 

For testing purposes, we've used real life 
applications rather than the standard bench- 
marks, because prospective buyers want to 
know how fast a card will run existing soft- 
ware, rather than how good it n at calculat- 
ing the square fool of its navel fluff. 

Best software 

Of the three boards on test, the Mercury 
and G-Force cards have the best software 
with Fuskm Forty's, much improved but still 
clunky installer disk lagging behind a bit 

All three are fairly easy to use, but C- 
Force employs Commodore's excellent stan- 
dard installer program and the PPS install 
sequence takes very little time. 

Again, both C-Force and Mercury make 
use of the official 68040. library from 
Commodore along with their own startup 
programs, giving them an apparent system- 
legal edge over Fusion Forty, and both auto- 
matically configure to the amount of 
memory on the card. 

Fusion Forty's software, though hugely 
better than the confused mess it was six 
months ago, is a little less "clean" than the 
other two offerings. Most of this, thankfully, 
is transparent to the user as installation Is just 
as quick and painless as Mercury or G-Force, 
except that the user has to choose a parficu- 
lar installer for the board's RAM con- 
figuration. 

The Fusion does not use Commodore's 
6&04Q, library, but this doesn't seem to make 
much difference as it is easily as stable and 
compatible as the other two boards and if 
anything is a bit better certainly than the &■ 
Force card, if not the Mercury.. 

Unfortunately, the resident Fusion Forty 
code afters Cold Capture and KickTag vec- 
tors to the dismay of most virus checkers. 
This is unavoidable given the route taken by 
RCS to implement the 040, but it's still a tad 
arnpying to have to click four times to can- 
. , eel a Zero virus requester every time you 



I ii n:i I jp. In addition, at time of going to 
press, RCS are still working on a software 
update to allow Fusion Forty to accept the 
presence of t6-bit fast RAM, with which it 
will not co-exist at the moment. 

In stability terms, ihc only card to grve 
me more than the usual clutch of problems 
was G-Force. Before it would work with the 
office A3000 I had to remove a resistor 
from the card - something the manual 
claimed should only be necessary with 
A3000 lower systems - and there were sig- 
nificantly more hancj-ups during a warm 
reboot than with the other cards. 

Once booted, G-Force was as well 
behaved as the rest of the gang and 
worked very smoothly, so the problem is 
not seriously detrimental to CWs latest 
baby. 

All the cards are Supplied with control 
software to allow data and instruction 
caches and copyback mode to be turned 
on and off, which is just as well ■ 

Some software will drop dead if you try 
to run it with copyback on and any penp-i- 
erals or software packages which make 
direct memory accesses (DMA) will fail to 
pick up on the contents of the CPU's data 
cache thus promptly - and messily - expir- 
ing. 

For the purposes of switching out of 
6JHM0 mode when the odd piece of soft- 
ware refuses to speak to the new card, 
Fusion Forty employs a hardware switch 
which Sticks out of the back of the machine 
and the others use software switches avail- 
able through icons on the Workbench 




screen, All require rebooting once a switch 
has taken place and all worked welt The 
improved Fusion Forty 680O0 mode now 
runs at the proper speed and automatically 
detects which position the hardware switch 
is in - unlike the Dngrnal, which would run 
&BDQQ mode at half speed and had to be 
told whkh mode you wanted at startup. 



Complex 



The long term stability of any efi04u 
card will often depend on, heat build up, 
which is a particular problem with chips as 
complex and transistor-crammed as these. 

G-Force and Mercury take care of the 
problem by means of a miniature fan 
mounted on top of trie 68040 CPU while 
Fusion Forty has stuck with the immensely 
ugly heat sink of the original cards. 

Both solutions seem to work perfectly 
well, and none of the cards hecame unsta- 
ble during prolonged operation, even 



when this involved extended stints w 
Imagine v2,0 renders. 

Fusion Forty has a smalt advantage when 
it comes to the rest of the chips on the 
board as the A2000 shell is better ventilated 
than the A100G\ but this didn't make an 
appreciable difference. 

So much for stability. The next question, 
and the one you've probably been waiting 
most for the answer to, is that of speed. 

Dozens of silly and downright ridiculous 
claims for the benefits offered by 68040s 
have been made since the first cards 
became available, and most of them are 
plain wrong, 

Using benchmarks, which we provided 
last month as a quick indicator ul the rela- 
tive speed of the cards, it is fust about possi- 
ble to claim a 10,000 per cent (100 times) 
increase over a standard A5OO/A2O0O, but 
in practice you won't get close lo this fig- 
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Accelerators 




This is because most berltlimarkSi air in 
«wy small amounts of memory SO that they 
usually fit ipi the data cache on the chip itself, 
jnd they test only for internal speed ratings. 

The results don't take into account screen 
refreshes,, hard drive access times, or any of 
the Amiga's custom chips which must be 
ped in most day-to-day operations and 
winch still run at BMUz, 

For thii reason we've done away with 
Benchmarks this month and concentrated on 
reel-life applications such as PageStream, Art 
Department Professional, and so on, 

For a discussion of how these tests were 
set up, we've listed how each one was done, 
and the results, are given in numerical and 
paphtcal form to suit most needs. 

Don't get annoyed because we've used an 
13004 for our test results. To compare an 
040 to an A2000 or A500 is about as point- 
less as comparing Concorde to a Gypsy 
Moth - threy use different methods of propul- 
sion and live wortds apart. 

Suffered 

Pundits and old lays might be surprised, 
given Gup's- record in the accelerator busi- 
ness, to find that G-force suffered in compar- 
ison to Fusion Forty and Mercury. So were 
we, but the test results don't lie unless our 
:opy of PageStream has suddenly developed 
a mind of its own complete with opinions 
and prejudices. 

Remember that ail boards and software 
were installed exactly as the manufacturers 
recommend, and that all caches and copy- 
back modes were utilised for maximum 



Test information 



To ensure the tests were at the same time strict and fair, a careful note was kept of the 
exact setting; used in each. The following is a )ist of those settings in case anyone cares- to 
confirm or deny our findings: 

ADPro: Convert 787k Targa to HAM and display on-screen. La-res, interlace, overscan, PAL 

PageStream: Zoom from full page view to 121 percent. Text greeking set to 4pt, page lull 
of bitmap giaphics and bold Stone Sans «pt body text ■ chosen for its slowness to update. 

Dfaint IV: Full screen fill. HAM mode, interlace, iranslurancy on, anti-alias set to high. 

PowefPacker 4 0' Crunch 787k Targa data file. Large speed-up buffer, best efficiency. 

Imagine 2.0: Render very complex galleon scene. ILBM 24-bit, Trace method, image sire 
704 x 582, lights cast shadows. 



speed- 

lf anything, the Fusion Forty was the only 

btwird discriminated against as it was rui- 
ning in a 1 6-bit A2Q0O rather than a 12-tit 
A3000 and did not have the advantage of 
the A3QO0's qukke r screen refresh for tests 

such as the PageStream page zoom. 

The results show that last month's bench- 
marks, it not particularly relevant to real 
applications, were a good indicator of the 
relative speeds of the boards. Mercury 
emerges as the clear tedder, in some cases 
embarrassingly so, with Fusion Forty in :he 
middle and G-Fonce bnnging up the rear. 

This nea% inverts the prices ot the units, 
as G-Force is the most expensive and Fusion 
the cheapest. Of course, when buying a unit 




as expensive as an 040 the pnce has to be 
offset by technical backup and future sup- 
port, which is where the two more expen- 
sive cards will score over Fusion Forty. 

The latter, however can hit back with a 
UK technical support line supplied by Hydra 
systems, the board's distributor, which is as 
good as Silica Systems' support for G-Force. 

Choices 

Put a gun to my head and ask me to 
choose between the boards and I'd have to 

go for the Mercury on A3000s and the 
Fusion on AiOOOs. both in terms of price 
and performance. 

If you want the GVP name and reputation 
for reliability, by all means buy a G-force, 



but for a more expandabk system I'd stick 
with one of the others, both of which can 
accept up to 32Mb RAM as opposed to the 

GW's ftMb. 

If PPS can ship the Mettury 2000 for a sim- 
ilar pnce to fusion Forty (current US price is 
J 2,430 - about £1,500 - for (he 4Mb MM 
version) Ihe choice in ths TiekJ would be «ry 
difficult, though would probably swing in 
Fusion's favour given the UK availability of 
technical help. 

If you've got the cash and a high-end 
application which needs a bit of extra oomph, 
I'd recommend any 68040 card. They simply 
jump all over the tender parts of 68010 accel- 
erators and transform your Amiga in five min- 
utes into a machine only the 
very fastest 486 PCs can match. 

G Force Is a product of Great Valley 

L Products Inc 

mvtrlbutor: Silica Systems 
Phone:081-309 11 
Price: £1,899 (0Mb RAM} 






Fusion Forty is a product of RCS 

Management inc 

Distributor: Hydra Systems 

Phone: 0203 471111 
Prke: £1,395 (4Mb RAM) 




■ 



Mercury 1000 Is a product af 

Progressive Peripherals and Software 

Distributor: Martam fid 

Phone: 0B 194 16117 

K 12,749 95 (4Mb RAM). No 

price as yet. 



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production times, but which is the best buy? 

Stevie Kennedy evaluates the current 

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Now I must say l J m quite 
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Blimey! This is a blast from the past for 
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black hole would have to strain its capabil- 
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to achieve a similar 
result, 

Utilities contained 
on the disk include 
CpuBlit, a program for 
those oF you with 
68020/010 systems, 
which doubles the 
speed of text scrolling; 



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Mtom, a script language which is used to 1 
create Ascil text files of commands to I 
automate such mundaite chores as log- 1 
ging on, to grabbing mail and posting * 
on another BBS; and Zoom vSAQ, a disk I 
tracking ind archrver program. 

There is also a large list of UK STOJ 
codes in numerical order. These are just | 
muih' ul the useful programs that any 
comms connoisseur will find very usi I 
indeed. 

EdWord v2.2 

Amiganuts 
Disk No 1236 

Text editors don't exactly make ycui jun 
up and down in anticipation while 
load, yet where would we be without 
them? 

They are fundamentally important in 
computing life, rather like a certain maga- I 
zine not too distant from your visual 
organs at this very instant. So il is hard to 
ignore them, especially when they arev*ei I 
written and feature packed, as EdWord is 

EdWord began as a programmers'' inte- 
grated editor/compiler which could be I 
used for any language. However, with a 
constant list of features being added dur- 
ing development, it soon evolved into ' 
quite s powerful general purpose text edt- 
tor with facilities such as block command: 
search operations and an Undo function. 

The programmer will find some ol 
Ed Word's features very useful. Thes* 
include auto-indenting, casing of key- j 
words (forcing them to uppercase),, num- 1 
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AmigaDOS commands, 

Il is entirely menu-driven, making I 
simple to use. It would be a mistake to 
compare it to a wordprocessor howev« 
for it lacks such facililips as margin setting. I 
typeface alterations and page numbenng. 

EdWord is shareware and I am le 
believe the author, Martin Rcdriy, will wel- 
come a minimum £5 contribution for h« 
Im Bru addiction. 

A good all-round editor any program- 
mer will find useful. 

Chemesthetics 
v2.10 I 

Amiganuts 
Disk No 1225 

This is one for the boffins. It is a program 
that will generate and display molecules 
as a Calotte model (no 1 don't know what 
a Calotte model is either}. 

The display generated is a 3D light- 
sourced image. Vou are able to view (he 
molecule from any angle and also magnify 
it or reduce it, Vou can also chang 
position of the light source. 

The images can be very slow to draw 
doe to the calculations involved, The one 
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The substances which are poisonous 
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Airmania 

Addware 

Remember the Plman? That disgusting 
cult figure of way back when? Well now 
Mel C roue her, father of the Piman and 
inventor of budget software (along with 
Paul Cooper), has seen fit to bring the 
Piman out ol retirement In the first 
Addware game, Airmania. 

Addware is a new concept developed 
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However, if you register with Addware 
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to anywhere equivalent to the same value. 

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way, you have to collect such items as 



your passport, credit card and luggage. 
There are toy soldiers wandering about 
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you hit them, luckity though, you hive 
your "parp power". This lethal cola-fuelled 
weapon will enable you to Wow the so 
{fan away- 

The graphic* are quite good with 
multi-level scrolling which gives i 3D 
effect There is a good soundtrack 
loo. 

If you were a big fan of the 
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Addams 
Family 
Demo 

Bur mans 
Amiga PD 
Disk No BPD 
134 

This demo by Excalibur and Pawn had our 
art editor Terry tapping his (eel, It consists 
of the catchy theme tune and various 
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Deluxe Paint 
III Tutorial 

Battleaxe PD 

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know the vast amount of effects 31 your 
fingertips. The manual contain} informa- 
tion on the effects avalabte. but it cannot 
hope to cover every possible result from 
using combinations of each effect 

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did the Amiga Introduction Package 
described earlier - contains graphic effects 
and designs from Gator, as well as step- 




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My apologies to Burmans PD who 

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seem to have misplaced their address, 

If you could get in touch, I will 

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Ezra Surf's Postbag 

Got something to say through the pages ol AC? Ezra surf is our ma 
cored to titling in a corner feeding your Setters and selecting the mint mtrmting 
tor publication. Ezra's favourite letters now get rewarded with an exctuwrr 
Ami ijit Computing designer T-shirt. 
Drop him a line at: 

Eira Surf's Postbag, Amiga Computing, Europe House, Adlingian Pari, 

Macclesfield SKJQ 4NP. 
Please don I enclose saes as lira just 
haw t got enough paper to reply penonaity. He 
might also hove to shorten your Setters, sa don't be offended it rim 
end up gelling the chop. 



Hard drive Heimdail 

Last week after a hard day'i work, I felt the reed to retax 
with a new computer game, so I popped into the local 
software Emporium.. Perusing trie shaves, my eye fell on 
Heimdail and, thinking of the exceflent reviews it had 
received, I handed aver a wad of fivers tor it. 

Driving home in maniacal anticipation, trying desper- 
ately to read the manual while weaving through rush hour 
traffic flings! - Ed), I looked forward with relish to the 
coming evening. Six whole disks of glorious graphical 
ecstasy! 

Imagine how disappointed I was when, inserting disk 



in an attempt to install the program to my hard drive, I 
found that it was of the protected kind and impossible to 
use other than on floppies. 

Holding back the lean, I hoped for as few disk swaps as 
possible and booted up. Three hours and three hundred 
disk swaps later, I found I could take- no more, and 
another glossy ba* hit ihe shelf never to be opened again. 

I am sure gameplayers all over the country must have 
had the same feeling on playing this sort of game, Hard 
drives are becoming cheaper and more popular all the 
time and companies like Core are putting games on more 
and more disks to stretch the Amiga to its limits, so why 
are so few games hard dnve installable? 

I know we have to combat piracy, but at the end of the 
day the games companies are hurting genuine customers. 
To add insult id injury, the PC section of the manual 
stresses how Core think their PC customers are "trustwor- 
thy" and so the game is installable on PC hard drives! 

Mark Clayton, Soulhampfort 



You've raised a very sore but important point. Piracy a one 
thing,, but equal game for equal money is just as important 
an issue, and at the moment the Amiga community isn't get- 
ling its fair share. 

The PC market is as rife with piracy as any other, yet 
because of the high level of hard drive ownership, PC gome s 
almost always install on hard drives. This ii (Of IfOffi true on 
the Amiga. 

far single disk games there's little to wotry about, and 
where the company concerned makes an effort to oil dawn 
on disk swops, such as Mkroprose with Knights of the Sky, 
even two and three disk games can be relatively painless to 
-am lloppy. However, as Heimdail shows, there are 
more and more games these dap which come on four or 
mare disks. 

if an Amiga owner pays the same as a K owner far a 
gome, then he or she has a right lo expect the game to be as 
playable, and constant disk swaps definitely affect piayability. 




Are Commodore just after your cash? 






Why don't Commodore bring out the 
Kickstart 2.04 upgrade for the Amiga 
1500/2000 on a card? They could put the 
new ROM chip arid tlte lull ECS on it with a 
switch sticking out of the back of the 
machine to turn it an and off, thereby giv- 
ing lull compatibility with Kickstart 1.3 - 
unlike the currently popular ROM switchers 
which don't live up to their promise, 

I believe the present upgrade options 
available to owners of 1,3 machines are 
nothing short of disgraceful, To upgrade to 
the level ol a current 500 Pius costs £80 for 
the ROM and manuals, £50 for the new 
Denise chip, and a staggering £200 for the 
5uper Agnus chip which isn't even an offi- 
cial option! 

For an owner of a 1.3 Amiga, it's hardly 
worth paying almost £350 for the full 
upgrade when a new A50Q Plus costs 
about the same. 1 can't help feel that own- 
ers of alder machines have subsidised new 
owners by paying over the odds tor their 
machines while they were stilt in need of 
serious improvements, Better machines 
now cost less and we don't get the benefits 
from developments we funded in the first 
place. 

Anyone- interested in Commodore's cus- 
■ care record could also look at FMC 



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{Commodore's official repair centre - Ed). 
After years of poor service and hundreds of 
complaints from customers, Commodore 
in my opinion have done nothing about it. 
If same other firm brought out an 
Amiga-compatible equivalent to at least a 
1 500 Pkis I'd sfing my Amiga In a quarry, 
buy the competition, and Commodore 
could go forth and multiply. It's about time 
you Amiga magazines developed some 
spine and made a commitment to your 
readers we don't pay upwards of £3 a 
month for you to ignore what's going on. 
P t Swwne, fccteM 

Well said thai manl While I don't agree that 
Commodore are the total bogeymen you 
seem lo think they are, 1 oufto agree that 
they've been both lardy and inconsiderate in 
regard to the Workbench 1.04 and ECS 
upgrades, for a nimble manufacturer they 



have, aver the years, left far too much of the 
Amiga's development to the third-party 
peripherals market 

Pernaps this is a consequence o> a radical, 
far-sighted machine landing m She hands of 
people with considerably less imagination 
[flon its creators, or perhaps they are just too 
busy with other projects. 

Whatever the reason & , j dear to anyone 
with half an ounce of grey matter thai the 
Amiga's development as a major mass-sell- 
ing contender lor the PC and Macintosh has 
been almost completely retarded by 
Commodore's lack of support far the 
machine, 

In the humble opinion of your postbag 
detver, Commodore should take the foSowifig 
steps: 

• i (cease the Amiga's custom architecture to 
third-party compatible manufacturers, thus 
increasing competition in the market and 
forcing prices down, 

• Develop the Amiga's graphics capabi)Hie\ 
beyond their obsolete level. PCs now have a 
256-colour VQA standard, and many cards 
giving 31,000 or even 6i, 006 colours 
onscreen of once are now available for less 
than £100. 

Commodore could transform the Amiga's 




potential in almost every field by boosting 
standard graphics capabilities. Industr. 
tlebult suggests this is on the cards later this 
year, but il should hove been done ages ago 
and, given Commodore's previous pricing 
policy, will profwfjfy cosl mare than equiva- 
lent systems on other machines. 

# Provide terhnical support and a "hotline" 
telephone service far end users. Most other 
siieabie computer manufacturers, when you 
spend hundreds or thousands of pounds an 
their equipment, wHI support your commit- 
ment by offering prompt and useful support. 
Commodore's technical support division 
wiH speak only to dealers and there's no sup- 
port lor the problems experienced by most 
new users which, though simple, can cause a 
Sol of people to gfvt up and go back to their 
favourite game. 

tfone cr more of the steps outlined above, 
or some other drastic action we can't foresee, 
isn't taken some lime this year, we could see 
the Amiga squeezed from one end by games 
consoles and tram the other ay cheaper and 
cheaper PCs which, though archok in their 
bask design and nowhere near as modem as 
the Amiga, offer mare power for less money. 

There now, is that enough "spine" 
tar you! 

Amiga Computing June 1992 



||E3 Letter* 



I would urg? all hard drive owners who feel the same to write 
to their favourite software companies and protest. 

f mean, if the games houses don't appreciate haw many 
potential customers there are, why should they bring out on 
easily pirated game (or what could be o small market of 
Amiga hard drive owners ? 

Tie a yellow ribbon... 

I noticed with more than 3 pacing invest art article in 
another magazine about the Hewlett Packard Deskjet 
SOOc printer which can switch from black and white to 
colour printing simply by changing the cartridge for the 
correct colour one. 

Why don't other manufacturers adopt the same princi- 
ple? is this posiible, or too technical? It could certainly 
solve some of our problems, and leads to a much better 
service for the end user. What do you think? 

Choi Dainty Woodford Bridge 

Many other manufacturers do exactly what HP have done 
with the Deskjet SOOc. Star's range of colour printers, for 
example, are capable of printing in either biack.and white or 
colour. What you may have foiled to notice is the little "t" art 
the end of the printer's name. 

The Deikjet SOOc is actually a colour printer which is 
happy to print in boring old black and white, and is thus 
more expensive than a mono-only printer. II you want the 
some capability on yaur Amiga, ei\her buy the iOOc or go for 
one 0! the colour dot matrix printers, Simple, really. 



Tweaks for Plus 

I recently purchased an A500 Plus ta replace rny vl .2 
AiOO, but soon realised that s vast quantity at my soft- 
ware would not work with the new Amiga. 

After contacting several software companies it hecame 
evident that with an often small piece of code this incom- 
patible software could be modified to work, on the Plus. 
However, distribution is a problem so... Amiga Computing 
to the rescue! 

If "tweaks" lor popular incompatible games could be 
provided on CoverDisks every month, or severaf on a sep- 
arate diik ; I believe you'd have a very big first for the mag- 
ajine and it would be vefy beneficial to your leadership. 

If you decide to develop the idea, please provide a 
tweak for Elvira at the earliest Opportunity. Pemaps some 
more experienced hackers could use their programming 

Ezra online 

Lira Surl can be contacted on a whole host of ol bul- 
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Amiga Computing also has its own Fidonel echo 
which is being carried by BBS systems throughout 
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skills and code some of the tweaks tor us games players? 

Keith Thornton. Convey Hland 

Your idea is on Interning one, but its practical application is 
a tittle problematic, first of all. the majority ol incompatible 
software & in non-AmioaDQS format so any software 1 patch 
used would be difficult to implement and the software 
bouses are unlikely to spend the time and money on old ar 
de-listed gomes to moke them compatible for people who 
hove already bought them. 

This is not an irresponsible attitude, just commercial sense. 
The most popular older gomes may end up being tweaked by 
their authors il they still set) well, but I would be very sur- 
prised if games of more than about a year in age were con- 
verted. By far the cheapest method for someone in your 
position is to buy a R QM switcher (or your Kkxstart chip. 

This won't solve all the problems, as many games are 
incompatible with the Denise chip rather than the 2.04 
Kkkstarf ROM, but it would be a start, and you could always 
try using a ROM switcher with two Denise chips for total 
compatibility. 

As for encouraging barters - aka pirates - to twiddle with 
copyrighted code, if we took this stance we'd quite rightly 
end up in court five minutes later. 



Hacked WordPerfect 

While reading your March issue, 1 noticed a news piece 
entitled "Whither WordPerfect" which stated that 
WordPerfect was only available on the Amiga in version 
4. LI 2. 1 enclose a disk with whai I believe id be an Amiga 
WordPerfect v5.0 on it! 

Is this version five ol the program or a renamed version 
four? It came with a spell checker, ttvesauais, and a printer 
disk, and as We never used WordPerfect before I don't 
know if Ihis version is a later one than 4-1,12- It was 
bought in Singapore last year. 

Oh, and do American hard drives and interlaces work 
on British machines? 

ft P Patterson, Khgrnis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia 

The so-called WordPerfect disk you sent us is m fad a piraied 
copy, as WP5.Q does not exist on the Amiga. As if. was 
bought in the notoriously pirate-ridden Singapore, there's no 
doubt that it is a professionally pirated piece of software re- 
boxed as a new wsfan and sold illegally. 

Your first course of action should be ta send a copy of the 
dish, complete with details of where they were purchased to 
the federation Against Software Theft. Once that 's done, you 
should wipe the disks you have, as possess/on of them b itfe- 
gal 

This is unfortunate, but anyone buying software in 
Singapore should be aware that il is one of the world's busi- 
est piracy centres. Pou were simply taken in by what can 
often be a very well produced, but pirate copy. 

In answer to your question on US hard drives, our ACA5 
people, to whom that enquiry should really hove been 
addressed, soy iltat they should wort perfectly. 



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■equipments are rvo different to any other 
desktop video tilling package - except for 
the audio, if you plan to record that pulsat- 
ing rap beat. 

More on the hardware requirements 
later - for now let's have a quick overview 
ol the RSIDM's features to see which of 
these we can utilise for our needs. 

Features 

Demos are assembled into a sequence of 
patterns, with each pattern bang a stan- 
dalone graphics routine capable of display- 
ing text, animated objects, colour 
background scrolls etc, or any combination 
of the above selected by the user. 

To use the DemD Maker as a character 
generator we simply isolate those patterns 
which display text, The Preferences List in 
the main menu holds the various items 
where text can be entered and edited. 
These include the Lop and bottom scrollers, 
the sine text scroller and the text screens 
for the three font sizes. 

Text is entered by moving the Hashing 
cursor line onto the item to be edited and 
selecting edit on the top command line. 



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the credits 



The Help hey toggles insert mode, while 
pressing Enter returns you to the main 
menu. In the Pattern Editor, text is entered 
directly into the Zoom Text pattern and the 
lextline patterns for each of the three font 
sizes. 

The Textscreen patterns for each lont 
size however, use the numbered and pre- 
edited textscreen items horn the prefer- 
ences list, of which there are ten for each 
font size. 

Because a picture is still worth a thou- 
sand words and an exampfe is easier to fol- 
low, load up the tutorial demo on this 
month's CoverDisk to see how it was con- 
structed. Load it into the RSI DM as a short 
under Titles Demo and run it a couple of 
times to get a feel. 

Then, examine the preferences list, 
select items which are highlighted m green 
and check their contents by clicking on 
Edit, Text areas will reveal how much can 
be entered and the optimum layout. Next 
go into the Pattern Editor to see which pat- 
terns were used and in which order. "Test- 
each pattern to see which parameters were 
selected for its execution. 

Try tweaking some of the parameters 



Saving your presentations 

Once you have created your title sequence or demo, you can save It in one of three 
ways - Save Final, Save Bootintro or Save Short, with each option olk-ring distinct 
.iHv.nir.iiji"-, idi ■ 1 1 r r i ■ i ii 1 1 application* 

The first option allows you to access the completed demo from i h> i'u m 
Workbench if an icon is lirst created using a suitable utility. This makes it possible 
to compile special disks with different types of sequences, or to link several 
sequences to form longer ones by pause editing the tape or similarly, using greater 
variety of fonts and logos than are normally p>OSSlt)le wilhin the Preferences list. 

Saving with the Bootintro option will create a self-booting disk where your 
sequence will play automatically after loading. This option has the otwtoui advan- 
tage of not having to load the host program or Workbench first, thereby saving 
time and memory but even more importantly allowing you to quickly "plug in" spe- 
cial sequence disks such as your own personal production logo or end credits, so 
you can "lop and tail" your productions. 

The third option, or saving as a short, k'ts you reload your sequence into (he 
[>i'niu Maker for lurther editing, changing certain presels sweh as Innls, logos and 
music, and creating template sequences. Thai way blank template sequences can 
be loaded with all the preset items already present in the preferences 1st, ready lor 
your next work session. 



Demo makers can be much more than just a 

bit of fun. Serge Golikov shows how to use 

the Red Sector Demo Maker as a powerful 

desktop video tool 




such as Mode to see how H changes the 
way the pattern runs. The Little and Big 
Logo patterns let you create your own cus- 
tom graphics in the farm of IFF brushes 
which yog can create in Deluxe Paint or 
even, part of a digitised picture provided it 
has the right resolution and dimensions, 

When cutting: brushes to be used as 
logos, use the Co-ordinates option in 
DPaint, as the sizes must be pixel perfect. 
Specifically they we 120 *. 1 58 and 320 \ 
54 for big and small logos respectively. The 
screen mode must be kmes 1 6 colour with 
overscan set to standard, 



Logo patterns 



By using the logo patterns you can have 
multiple fonts at Dnce, thereby overcoming 
the limitation of only one lont being mem- 
orj resident to each fiorH tin 

Now that you've seen the Tute demo a 
couple of times, let's look at it in closer 
detail. It starts with a restrained amount of 
rajzamataii - from an overwhelming 
choice of possibilities - in the form ol the 
zoom texL and sine scroller for the opening 
sequence. 

This is consistent with a typical style 
which might be used for the start of a pro- 
gram or tide sequence. It then proceeds at 
an even pace with conventional-style of 
presentation of the facts and continues so 



until examples of some specific techniques 
are ollered - all laming this graphical beast 
id best serve our special needs. Of course 
you can make your own titles as fancy as 
you like - the program is more than capa- 
ble The intention of this article, however, is 
to focus on producing conventional titles 
using a very unconventional program - a 
fact which csn be far from obvious while 
being dazzled by a spectacular demo com- 
plete with stereo soundtrack. 

As for the hardware requirements, the 
humble RF modulator will let you record 
your titles directly orf an AS 00 or 3000 
onto your VCR, Simply connect the video 
out of the modulator to the video in on 
your VCR and switch the input selector to 
external. 

If you are fortunate enough to have 
access to a genlock, you will know the 
required connections which will let you 
superimpose the titles over a live video 
background. 

That's it - the rest is up to your imagina- 
tion. May your creative [uices flow, and let 
the credits roll. 



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ROM problems 

na*e a problem with my Commodore 
42630 accelerator card and Workbench 

L All I get on power-up is a message 
onscreen saying "A2630 Monitor ?M* 
and a question mark Dn the line below. 
Mutf am I to type in? 

I spoke to FCC Df teeds, from whom I 
purchased the 2.04 ROM. Ihey were 
.-.able to help but offered me a full 
■rfund on my sharer and 2.04 ROM. 

I then spoke to Commodore and was 

■old that I should speak to my dealer 

»bout the problem, but as the dealer 

who supplied the card went bust soiTie 

-ne ago, I was stuck. 

I told this to Commodore and they 
-.jgestqd I write to the technical sup- 
port department in Milton Keynes, 
Ha.,.ha,„ha, r , | wrote to tech support on 
mother matter in December 1991 and 
-jve heard nothing from them iince, 

I finally round out about, the cornpati- 
Dility problem from Silica Systems who 
nave offered to upgrade the ROMs on 
fee A2630 free of charge. 

All I can say to Commodore is thank 
God there are good dealer* around wili- 
ng to help people who have bought the 
best machine in the world, and are 
heated like dirt by Commodore after 
spending thousands of pounds on their 
products. 

Terry Williams, Harrow 

As you have just found out, the 
42630's original ROM chips, used 
among other things for shadowing 
tirkstart to 32-bit RAM r are incompati- 
ble with the new operating system. 
Commodore have upgraded the ROMs 
for this product, and the new version 7 
chips enable the board to function 
perfectly with Kickstart 

You seem to have sorted out the 
problem, thanks again to helpful third- 
party dealers, but your plight high- 
lights a sad weakness in the way 
Commodore "supports" the Amiga 
range. Relying on dealers for third- 
party technical support is a good idea 
as long as the dealer network Is devel- 
oped and of a high standard. 

However, as Amigas are sold by 
every box shifter under the sun as well 
as the more reputable companies, 
many thousands of owners find them- 
selves in a position similar to your own 
every month. 

This is as good an argument as I can 
think of for a proper end-user tele- 
phone support service. If companies 
like Electronic Arts can offer this for 
games players, why can't Commodore 
do the same for all Amiga users? 

Upgrade worries 

About sin months ago, I bought an 
^miga 1500 with Kickstart 1.3 and 

recently heard that the machine is now 
being shipped as the A1500 Plus, com- 



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chips. 

As Kickstart ROMs and ECS chips ate 
available, and being interested in pro- 
gram mi og, I have decided to buy the 
new chips to upgrade my Amiga but 
would like a lew answers before I do. 

1. Does the Kickstart 2.04 chip come 
with manuals and Workbench disks? 

2. Can I fit the chips myself? I know this 
will invalidate my warranty, but will it 
involve soldering and do they come with 
fitting instructions? 

1. To fit the new chips, will I have to buy 
extra boards or do they just slot into the 
motherboard in place of my Did chips? 

4. How many RAM boards are there 
which are compatible with the new 
Super Agnus chip? 

K B Sekhtifl, HeilOrt 

As long as you buy the official upgrade 
pack from a Commodore deafer, you 
should receive manuals, disks, the new 
ROM chip, and fitting instructions 

This will cost a ridiculous £M>, but If 
you wimp out and go for the £40 
Kicks tarl chip alone, you II have no 
Workbench 2.04 disks or manuals, 



Fitting the Kickstart chip Is quite easy. 
Vou Just open the machine, prise out 
the old chip with a screwdriver, and 
slot the new one in its place. No sol- 
dering is required. 

There art no ordinary BAM boards 
which will take advantage of the Super 
Agnus chip, because unlike the 
Kickstart and Denise chips, you can't 
Just replace your old Agnus with a 
Super Agnus. The motherboards on 
nun Plus machines are incompatible 
with the new chip, even though it is 
the same size as the older Agnuses. 

MegaChip 2000 - which will fit En 
any A1500. 2000 - is the only board at 
present which will allow you to 
upgrade to 2Mb chip RAM. It fits In a 
standard Zorro slot and comes with 
the extra memory and a Super Agnus 
chip Installed. It will cost you a hefty 
£199, so you'll have tD be desperate 
for more chip RAM. 

Quirky Quantum 

I recently fitted a Quantum 32Mb 
replacement drive in my A59Q case and 
although everything is working OK, I 
would be extremely grateful if you could 
answer the following questions: 

t. In my ignorance the first thing I did 



was a low level format using HDToolBo* 
and then initialised the dak. I have wk* 
been told that this will slow the drive 
down, is this correct and if so can I do 
anything about it? In any case, t$ the 
speed not restricted by the A590 con- 
troller card? 

2. 1 use the KCS Powerboard and when 
booting up the software it kept asking 
me to low format the drive or press Esc 
to continue. Again in my ignorance | 

took this to mean that the drive needed 
Idw level formatting and did so. 
Strangely, all the data on the hard drive 
remained intact, but the software no 
longer prompts for a low level format 
Why? 

3, The PC program Checklt states that 
the transfer rate is 674Kb per second, 
which is far lower than the 2Mb quoted 
in the drive specifications, so I am con- 
cerned I may have done something 
wrong. 

Finally,. I read Mr An kin's letter in the 
April edition and would like to spring to 
Diamond Computers' defence. Over the 
last couple of years they have been pace- 
makers with their pricing policy. I fre- 
quently use them and on the whole find 
their backup service satisfactory. 

I think the problem lies with their sales 
staff who, 1 agree, promise to return calls 
and don't, but whenever I have dealt 
with their technical engineers I have 
found them extremely helpful. 

5 Morley, Harpenden 

Low level formatting should be carried 
out once on a hard drive and It 
shouldn't need to be done again, Most 
hard drives will have already been For- 
matted at the factory, which means 
you need only prep and partition 
them. 

There is no possibility of this actu- 
ally slowing down your Quantum, as it 
wouldn't work unless you formatted it! 
As you rightly point out, speed of 
access and transfer rates are dictated 
partly by the drive mechanism, but 
more by the controller board. 

In your case, the speed of the 
Quantum will be affected by the rela- 
tively slow AS90 controller, which is 
why you are achieving transfer rates of 
only 674Kb per second. 

Ignore the "best case" 2Mb transfer 
speed, as this is just the manufac- 
turer's estimate of the mechanism's 
physical limits. In practice, the fastest 
A500 hard drive, CVP's Impact Series 
II, will transfer data at about 1.05Mb 
per second. 

The PC software seems to have 
assumed that you are booting from a 
hard drive or wish to use a hard drive 
as your boot partition, In this case, the 
KCS software would like to prep and 
format a partition nf its own, thus the 

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request to law format Lhe drive. As 
the data survived, which it should 
never do when a drive is formatted, I 
can only assume the low level format 
in question never took place. 

Dead Amiga? 

Last |une I purchased an Amiga 500 with 
1Mb memory. In addition, there is an 
A590 hard drive which the Amiga refuses 
to access. It either informs me ot a guru, 
tells me tD check my hardware, or asks 
for Workbench disk to be inserted. 

The A590 does not seem lo interlace 
properly, There's a quarter-inch gap 
between it and the Amiga which I've 
tried for hours to reduce, but can't. Also, 
my Star LC-2O0 printer will not work. Is It 
incompatible? The shop refuses even to 
allow me to lake my equipment along 
and have it checked out, so I'm getting 
desperate. 

S G Potion, Upmimler 

It sounds as If your A590 has not been 
formatted or prepped. Try booting 
from your A590 setup disk and use the 
HDToolBo* utility to go through the 
formatting procedure. If the drive still 
won't work after this, then there's 
something seriously wrong either with 
the A550 or the Amiga Itself. 

Don't worry about the smalt gap 
between the Amiga and the A5P0, As 
long as the edge connector has been 
slotted in correctly, it doesn't matter [f 
there's a slight gap - you'll find this 
happens with all hard drives which fit 
in the DMA port. 

The Star LC 200 printer should be 
completely compatible with the Amiga 
as long as you have the correct printer 
leads. Check with your local dealer if 
you are En doubt about the lead. 

By the sound of it the shop you 
bought the Amfga from is less than 
helpful, but if the machine U less than 
one year old you have a right to free 
repairs under your Commodore war 
ranty. ftemind the shop of this, and if 
they still won't help you, report them 
to Commodore and send your machine 
to the national repair centre (FMGl 

Productive Denise 

Thank you for a great mag, especially the 

Almanac DTP column. I just have a cou- 
ple of questions. 

Can you tell me the address for 
George Thompson Services? There was a 
wonderful article in the April issue about 
cheap fonts for PageStream, but the con- 
Mi | address was tefl out 

Secondly, I know that the new ECS 
Denis e chip can use Productivity mode 
on a multi-scan monitor, but could the 
same monitor be used for lower resolu- 
tions? 

I intend to add an accelerator board at 
some stage and won't have room inside 
an A500 for this and a video card. I 



know that this kind of expansion is fully 
possible with an A15Q0/ZQ00, but I 
haven't got room for one of those 
machines. Vicious little circle, isn't it? 

Shoun Pugh, Bailey 

George Thompson's address is 
Cucumber Hall Farm, Cucumber Lane, 
Essendon AL9 6~|B and they can be 
reached by phone on 0?07 6646 5-4, 
Sorry we neglected to supply it in the 
DTP article. 

To use productivity mode with a 
multisync, you must ensure that the 
monitor will properly display the new 
mode. Commodore, predictably 
enough, recommend their own 1950 
monitor, which is a good quality multi- 
sync, though a little expensive. 

You can risk a cheap VGA monitor, 
but try to test it before paying For it, 
as productivity mode is not a standard 
VGA-style signal and may not perform 
well with cheaper monitors. 

As long as the monitor is happy. 
and you have a cable which will con- 
nect its 9- or lS-pIn Input to the 
Amiga's 23-pin RGB socket, you should 
be able to use all Amiga modes with 
the multlsync 

The display will probably be a bit 
sharper than your average Amiga 
monitor hut you will, ol course, still 
gel flicker in interlace mode unless you 
have a flicker fixer. 

More memory 

I am thinking of upgrading my ASOO, but 
I am not sure if some upgrades will be 
compatible with the others. I am plan- 
ning on a Virgo VI 500 board to give me 
1 Mb ol chip RAM and 1Mb of fast RAM. 
Will this board be compatible with lhe 
new Kickstart 2. 04 chips I am thinking Df 
getting? 

I would nl like to think I'm wasting my 
money an one or the other. Please help. 
Rfchard Tutton, Retford 

I have to confess I've never clapped 
eyes; on a Virgo V1S00, but it sounds 



like a perfectly ordinary 1.5Mb card 
with Gary connector and DIV solder 
job, As long as you Install it properly, 
you should find little to worry about. 
Kickstart 2.04 should be happy to 
coexist with the new RAM board. 

Confused startup 

I have a query. When I turn on my A500 
Plus and hold down both mouse buttons, 
a screen appears. Please can you explain 
what it is for and what it actually does? 
Peter Hicks, StAfbons 

The startup menu screen activated by 
holding down both mouse buttons is 
Df most use lo users of auto -booting 
hard drives without game twitches, as 
it allows you to stop a floppy or hard 
drive from booting, and gives you a 
choice of which drive to actually boot 
up from. If you don't have an extra 
floppy or a hard drive, just ignore this 
screen. 

Duff driver? 

I'm on the verge of destroying my 
printer, as it's been causing me no end 
of grief lately, I recently switched from 
using an old shareware test editor, called, 
Ucdit, (d the Pen Pal word processor, but 
I've not been able to print anything oul. 

It all started when the disk, which I 
ought from a friend, turned oul to have 
a read/write error. There wasn't a 
backup, so we used FixDisk to sort it out 
and managed, through luck more than 
judgement, to get Pen Pal to boot up. 
However, all was not well. 

When I finished my first letter and 
tried to print it, I got the "Can't find 
printer device" error message. Now, I 
think either my Amiga is going mad, or 
Pen Pal is corrupted, as I have selected 
the printer driver using preferences and 
there was na problem. Can Pen Pal have 
been damaged by the read/write error? 
S Henion, Birmingham 

It sounds to me as if one of the 



NTSC niggles 

I wish to Install Kickstart 2,04, but I have heard that some of fie early A2000 machines 
won't accept the chip, Is this true? If so, is my A2000 one of these machines? I have a 
revision 4,4 A2DO0 which I purchased In America In 1 988. 

What is It that makes the Amiga PAL or NTSC? Do PAL and NTSC versions have a 
totally different motherboard, or li it only the display chips that drffer? How an I 
change my system to PAL? 
NejdetAyik, BAOS 

There should be no problem Installing the new Kickstart ROM In your old 
machine - the Kkkstart chip socket is exactly the same size us In all the latest 
machines and will accept any Commodore Kkkstart chips except the double-chip 
A300Q version of Kickstart. 

The difference between a PAL and NTSC Amiga Is In the Agnus and Denlse dis- 
play chips. Make sure you fit a Fatter Agnus, which will work in PAL or NTSC, and 
while you're at ft buy the ECS Denlse » that you can take advantage of Kickstart 
Z.04'5 new display modes. After that, you should be In full PAL mode. 




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Workbench system files was wiped out 
by FixDisk when it sorted oul your 
read/write error, Vau will probably 
find that port-handler (from the L: 
directory), parallel. device, or 
serial. device (both from DEVS;) have 
gone missing. Use Shell or TDM to 
track down the missing file and copy It 
across from your Workbench disk. 

If Pen Pal had been corrupted, It 
wouldn't run at all, so you can rest 
assured you expensive software is safe, 

Monitor mayhem 

My monitor makes a very annoying high- 
pitched whine whenever I use it, and has 
recently become so bad lhat I've 
resorted to using the TV modulator 
rather than go mad. Is there anything I 
can do about it? The monitor is a Philips 
CM 881 3 Mk2 and is just out of warranty, 
so if there's a way of sorting it out with- 
out an expensive repair, I'd love to know 
what il is, 

Also, when I use my internal drive for 
loading large files, it sometimes hangs 
up. When this happens, the drive light 
stays on, and the drive keeps cluncking 
away on the same part of the disk. Is il 
fritted as well? 

George Choi, Le ighton Buiiatd 

Some people with very acute hearing 
in the high range can constantly hear 
the whining sound made by cathode 
ray tubes, but unless you get this with 
TVs and every other kind of CRT-based 
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Vou probably won't be able to do 
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computer repair Shop, try lugging it 
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may not know much about monitors, 
but they're basically similar lo TVs and 
he should be able to confirm which 
component Is at fault. 

As for the Internal drive, the only 
solution Is to replace it. Commodore's 
internal floppies are not the best in 
the world, though usually adequate, 
and many need to be replaced after 
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ts probably to rip open the packag- 
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tering' about looking for the interesting 
bits. 

If that's exactly what you did when the 
CrapNcStation dropped through your let- 
ter-box there's a strong chance you've 
probably overlooked one of the most pow- 
erful utilities on the disk. 

PrintStudio is a fairly bland and minus- 
cule window which hides a plethora or 
printing options that make the 
GraphicStatian one □( the most powerful 
printing environments in the business. 

Before yau delve into the utility ilsell, 
the first task is to add the printer driver of 
your choice. II there's one area that causes 
more problems than any other it's printers, 
both In their installation and operation. As 
a result, we'll go through the entire printer 
installation process step-by-step. 

Boot upl 

If we assume you've just booted the 
GraphicStetion, either double dick on the 
GraphicStation disk icon or alternately dick 
once on the short-cut pull-down with the 
left mouse button, then expose the pull- 
downs themselves by holding down the 
fight. 

Either way, select the TDM icon or 
menu item and load up the aforesaid soft- 
ware. Once loaded, dick on DFO to load 
up the GraphkiSlation directory. Now dou- 
ble dick on DEVS: followed try the printers 
directory. At this paint you should see the 
EpsonX printer driver supplied with the 
disk. 

If you use an alternative driver, delete 
the EpsonX Ilk and copy your preferred 
driver into the drawer. If you're using a 
dual-drive system, this should be simplicity 
itself. 

Simply click on the opposite directory 
window and load a disk containing the 
driver you require. Select the driver from 
the parent disk and copy it into the now 
empty printers drawer on the 
Graph it Station, ff you're working with a 




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bHbqhed 



single dnve system, follow the same loading 
procedure for the disk containing the new 
drive, then dick in the GraphkSlation direc- 
tory and select RAM. Now highlight the 
driver from the parent disk - a small arrow 
will appear alongside the file. Copy the 
driver into the RAM disk. 

Replace the Graphic Station and move 
through the directory structure by double 
clicking on DEVS: and then printers, or alter- 
natively click in the path window above the 
directory list and type; 

dfCnleM/prliit*F.i 

This simply speeds up the process by direct- 
ing TDM straight to the necessary drawer 
on the disk. 

Once in the correct spot, simply click in 
the opposite directory window displaying 
the contents ol the RAM disk, select the 
driver and nil copy. The GraphieStation disk 
should now be complete with the correct 
driver, ready for configuration. 

Now exit TDM and load PrintStudio, 
Click on the PrintStudio window to remove 
the information screen and select the prefer- 
ences icon within. 

The program will automatically load the 
standard Amiga preferences program. Once 
loaded, click an the printer icon which will 
reveal a secondary window. 

You should now see either the original 
EpsonX driver or alternatively your latest 
addition plus the generic driver all waiting 
in the select window. To choose your new 
driver, simply highlight it using the arrow 
gadgets alongside the requester. 

Once your driver and any other printer 



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advice for the power-packed GraphicStation 



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preferences are defined, dick on Use to 
return to the main menu. If you are happy 
with alt the other preferential options, click 
on Save and you'll be return to the 
PrintStudio interface. 

Because of the usual space restnction 
imposed by a single page, it umpry isn't 
possible to go into real depth concemtng 
the program itself, so for the hm* bang 
we'll have to make do w*h a brie* guided 
tour, returning in later columns for i more 
in-depth look at the opuora on offer.,. 

On the very top of the PrintStudro win- 
dow you'll see the interface colour options, 
but perhaps more 
importantly, con- 
cealed between 
these two gadgets 
lie 5 the system 
information drop- 
down which is 
revealed by clicking 
cm the central title 
bar. This produces 
a small window 
which shows your 
available fast and 
chip HAM plus a 
running total of the 
two. 

Below the title bar lurk the four main 
power gadgets. The first of these is the 
ILBM icon which alkws you to load any IFF 
and print either the entire image or just 
selected parts. 
An additional 
screen gives com- 
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the palette of the 
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foreground to background, 
The screen icon has a dual 
purpose. It not only allows 
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As the name suggests, the Text gadget 
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ecfioi 

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Finally we come to the Preferences 
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merely gives access to the standard Amiga 
preferences program, a detailed recount of 
its options isn't necessary, 

If you require further assistance have a 
dig around and retrieve the Workbench 
manual which contains all the necessary 
information. 

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more info on the premier productivity pro- 
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Having covered most Of the bare-bones 
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diversion to loot at a subject that will 
interest almost all new users of the language. 

The Amiga's reputation is built on its graphics 
capabilities. Hi multitasking and its interface, and a 
newcomer is bound to ask: "How can I make use 
ol these advanced features easily?" 

One might have thought that the loading and 
saving of graphics, the use of file requesters and 50 
on would be easily available from the system, but 
up to now this has not necessarily been the case. 

While the Amiga's old utility language, 
Amigafiasic, did give access La some of these tea- 
lures, it offered an unfriendly and cranky interface. 
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but AMOS needs its own environment and does 
not multitask with the Intuition graphic user inter- 
face. 

Sd, bizaitety, there has not realty been an effec- 
tive utility language for the Amiga - most users 
have relied on diverse TO utilities to perform their 
various management tasks. 

It is here that Aftex* comes into its own in a 
way that really shines, and which has not yet 
received the acclaim it deserves, By supporting the 
addition of limitless extension libraries, AReux lets 
us create custom functions that will do the afore- 
mentioned jobs easily and cleanly, 

For instance, functions to open a window or a 
screen, to display a graphic, create a menu or get 
a file requester might look something like 
OpenWindow(), OpenScreenQ, Display Pi e(), 
MakeMenu{) k GetRequesterQ - in other words, 
intuitive and easy to use, much as you would 
expect them to be. 

A small library with features like these - 
rxjnlui. library - is included on this month's 
CoverDisk. This library gives access to many 
Intuition functions and system functions, as well as 
the Bask -like peekfl and pokef). Normatly, func- 
tions like these are only available to programmers 
using assembler, C and their ilk. 

Remember Id install the library belore use with 
the command; 



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sts 
[in be set Ems) AREKti 




Alex Gian looks at 
graphics and intuition 

with ARexx, and 

predicts a bright future 

for the language 

sequence. We use rx-intui in the example below to 
show how we can write a simple picture viewer in 
just a few lines, The reason it seems so simple is 
that the hard work has already been done by the 
author of the library, 

It is therefore all the more remarkable that all 
the best ARexx support libraries ate freely dis- 
tributable, and more are appearing daily - this 
demonstrates the support that ARexx receives, and 
its true utility nature, 

Of course, you will have to learn something of 
the workings of Intuition if you want to produce 
anything fancy, but for simple purposes, every- 
thing you need is already there. 

Let us look at the example now, which will 
recap some of what we have already seen, and 
also demonstrate the use of nested loops and If 
statements; 



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The first part of the program merely checks 
whether It was run with an argument supplied or 
not, using parsing techniques we have already 
seen. If no argument was given, then the user is 
prompted to supply a file name, 

You could also use a file- 
requester to do this, as we 
showed in the last issue. A check 
is made to ensure that the lile 
exists, and its contents are then 
displayed with a simpie function, 
in this case LoadlFFf). 

A useful feature is that 



Coioun. twill and 
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The usefulness of ARe.*x Sies in two general directions. Firstly, in the extend- 
ability of the Language via special libraries (and external command hosts - 
we saw this in the ClockDf program, which provided us with a file-requester 
and window control) and secondly as s powerful automation tool for appli- 
cations that need script control - for jobs that would otherwise have to be 
dote manua-lfy. This rs, of course, a generalisation, and there are wide over- 
laps 






Provision of custom 

functions (language 

function*) 




— — __K Automation of 

\ programs through I 
__ — y the uie of scripts 



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Obviously, both elements of the equation are equally important, and it is 
their combination that gives ARexx its unique abilities. 

Let us now look at some more programs that link ARexx and graphics, in 
order to get a better idea ol what is possible- 






RexxArp Lib, library 

FreeDraw 

CanDo 

AS DC Art Department 



APiC.library 

RexxPIPIot 
Hyperbook 



The first, RexxArpLib, is a library similar to out own rxjntui, in that it 
allows easy access to Intuition features - despite its name! It started off as an 
interface to the ARP. library - a library that successfully replaced parts of 
AmigaDOS - but acquired many graphic features along the way. 

It has been around for a while, end is quite popular. Unusually, it opens 
ARexx port for every graphics task, but once you get the hang of it, is very 
pleasant to use, 

APIG - at least you won't forget the name - is another library with similar 
features, which also tries Lo cover some gaps (eft by RexxArpLib, As you can 
see, the user is spoiled for choice. 

FreeDraw fs an interesting example of how ARexx can transform a pro- 
gram. It began life as a simple drawing package that could do lines, squares 



and other simple tasks. As you can imagine, its practical real life value was lim- 
ited. 

However, it acquired an ARexx port when various programmers (particu- 
larly T Rukkki with minrexx) took advantage of its simplicity to show how a 
port could be attached to any program with a simple module. The resulting 
FreeDraw can now perform quite complex plotting routines via custom ARexx 
commands; the accompanying illustrations show this. 

RexxPIPIot is another interesting case It started oft as a powerful library of 
plotting routines, with very high quality output, but it was only available for 
inclusion in C programs. With its AHex* interface it is now available to anyone. 

Of course it does run a bit slower under ARexx, it needs to be learned, and 
if you want professional PostScript output vou will need lots ol memory. 
However anyone requiring an interactive professional quality plotting module 
will be more than pleased with it. 

Next, we mention CanDo and Hyperbook, These are multimedia software 
authoring packages, both of which sport ARexx ports. Anyone who has used 
this kind of program will appreciate the ease that they bring into the creation 
of presentations. 

CanDo is implemented as a command host, and since it has its own script 
language, is more likely to rely on ARexx for information about the system. 
Hyperbook. on the other hand, uses ARexx solely as its script language, and 
because it is implemented as a function host (ie all its operations are also 
ARexx functions) it can be contrc*ed very easily, even f ram other programs. 

Using powerful programs like this you can realty let your creativity loose, 
without getting bogged down m messy coding details* 

Finally, ASDG's Art Department is a powerful industry standard package 
which can perform a vast amount of graphic operations, including 24-bit 
work, and the conversion of almost any picture format ever devised. The fact 
that It proudly carries an ARexx interface only underlines that graphics and 
ARexx have a bright future together. 

We will look at Amiga system programming with ARexx again in the future, 
but next time we will return to ARexx proper, to have a look at same impor- 
tant control features in the language as well as the excellent debugging and 
tracing facilities, which will be appreciated by beginners and old hands aiike. 



while the window and screen settings can be fully 
customised, they can also be left unspecified, in 
which case the function uses its own default val- 
ues. These are quite adequate in most cases. 

All necessary windows and so on will be dealt 
with automatically. This makes the function useful 
to beginners and more advanced programmers 
alike! 

An average PD file viewer is over 20k in size, so 
you can see that the libraries are doing a iot of 
work to bring all that programming into just one 
in" 1 Rx intui. library actually calls a further library 
(ilbm .library) to handle display and saving, but this 
is invisible to the user. All you have to do is make 
sure that all necessary libraries are in your libs; 
drawer. 

The other advantage of doing it this way, rather 
than using, say, a standard PD viewer, is that you 
can tailor it exactly to your needs. Vou can create 
a custom slide show, with the prompts that you 
want, and you can easily tie it in with other ARexx- 
compatibfe utilities. 

For instance, you could edit the pictures as you 
go, perhaps "stamping" them with some informa- 



tion generated by the system, The next line in our 

listing uses the PeekQ function to look at the window 
data (structure} in memory, and get the address of 
the screen on which our window has opened, 

We will need this when we exit the program - we 
will then close the screen and leave everything 
behind us nice and tidy. 

We'll look at the system structures in a later arti- 
cle, but for now all you need to know is that the 
address ol a screen is 46 bytes into the window 
structure. 

Next we have a loop that checks the messages 
sent by the system to the intuition windows when 
things like mouse clicks and keypresses occur. These 
are known as IDCMP (Intuition Direct 
Communication Message Port) messages. 

Again we will go into no detail here - suffice it to 
say thai the first part of the message sent when the 
mouse key is pressed has a value ol three, The library 
documentation for the WaitMsgO function goes into 
more detail. 

We use this loop so that we can break out of our 
picture viewing with a mouse dldk. Once we are out 
ol the loop we use the rxjntui supplied functions 







/ 



Crnphii i Inlrrfaclmf madi' 



EndWindowO and EndScreenO to give us back the 
memory we have used. 

Well thats all there is to it! I know that it may 
initially appear daunting to beginners,, but it realty 
is one of the cleanest ways to go about this kind of 
work, Experienced programmers often turn tD 
ARexx when designing prototype work, and leave 
the complex coding to the end, when the design 
has taken form. 

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In last month's column we went through the 
essentials needed to establish tine nucleus ot 
a home-based DTV setup. This mo-nth well 
continue in the same vein with a look at the 
additional hardware which can transform your 
first faltering steps intD full-blown, stylish spec- 
taculars. 

As promised last month, our first port ol call 
concerns a near essential element of any serious 
studio, The genlock comes second only to the 
Amiga - and, of course, the video - within any 
serious setup. As a result, it's well worth thinking 
long and hard about your investment. 

To help you make such a big decision it's 
probably a good ideal to explain exactly what a 
genlock tan offer, how it works and finally how 
to get the best from your investment. 

The first job is to Cut through the jargon and 
explain what your newest investment will actu- 
ally offer. First, the word genlock is a concatena- 
tion of "general locking" - a tedious bit of trivia, 
but always handy as an ideal dinner party con- 
versation stopper. 

Achieving the results 

Wore important aspects of a genlock concern 
how it achieves such impressive results. Basically 
there are three elements that make up any gen- 
lock. The first and most obvious feature is its 
ability to overlay, « key, computer-generated 
images over a video signal. Although impressive, 
this is perhaps the simplest part of the equation. 
The really clever bit concerns the synchronis- 
ing of the video and computer signals at sync 
pulse level. Without this ability, genlocking as a 
concept would be impossible. 

The final element 
concerns coding, a 
process which ton 
verts the Amiga's 
RGB signal into a 

PAL composite or 5-VHS signal, depending 
on your setup. 

With these three elements in place, you 
have the essence ol a genlock. Of course, 
more expensive units offer a whole range ol 
additional whistles and bells which enhance 
the output and flexibility of the unit. 

Nevertheless, for as little as £100, a 
basic genlock will provide all of the 
three elements which combine to pro- 
duce impressive results. 

Application 

The actual application ol a genlock 
remains a mystery to many, but really it's 
a very simple process. A common miscon- 
ception is that genlocks "key" onto a spe- 
cific colour This is not the case, as the majority 
lock solely to colour zero in the Amiga's colour 
palette. Like all the registers in the Amiga's 
repertoire, it can be any colour you want it to 

be. 

Because the genlock keys to a specific colour 



This month Paul Austin continues his tutorial 
on how to build up from the basics 




Genlock buyers' brief 

With so many genlocks on the market It would be unfair to single out one or two as perfect buys. 
Nevertheless, there « * few posters which should make your decision a little easier. 

Obviously your cho« may be restricted by available funds, but there are a few points to look lor 
First is an RGB through port. Not all bargain basement units have this option but it s an important 
addition which cm save a tat of hassle during production - if you <an manage the extra investment, 

11 '7i^tcLt. ptamp for a unit that employs sliders » opposed to knobs to achieve wipes and 
fades between the two lign*. This isn't as important as a through port but it does m.mmise jerky 

'Tpie, look for * ur* that offers an invert option. You're only likely to find It on more recent 
releases but it's i handy addition allowing you to make colour zero the transparent element while all 

other colours form a mask. ^.l. 

Creating clear windows wrthm a masked or semi-transparent background can really help to empha- 

<.i*e certain aspects within the image, , . . 

If vou wanfmore details or, units, prices, performance and the like, look at last November s issue of 
* for, a complete roundup of the available hardware. Next month I'll be taking a look a Ox*, s excel- 
lent Presentation Matter, detailing how best it can be incorporated into the average DTV setup. 



register rather than an actual colour, it's possible 
to have an entire palette made up of identical 
colours, with only the areas painted in colour 
jeru displaying the keyed video image. 

If for some strange reason you don't want the 



Genl 




option to genlock but still require your art on 
video, a PAL encoder is the pedect alternative for 
anyone who needs to transfer their art onto tape. 
Unlike a genlock, a PAL encoder has only one 
aim in life, that being to convert the ftGB output 
of the Amiga into a high quality PAL VHS com- 
posite or S-VHS VSfC iignal. The attraction of an 
encoder is that it provides the best possible 
Amiga to PAL conversion, but it does mean your 
art is restricted to Amiga only. 

For animators 

this could 

be ideal, 

as live 

action 

video usually isn't required. An added 

bonus with many encoders is their built in 

expandability, with composite, V/C and 

even Hi B outputs as standard, plus a built 

in audio through port. Unfortunately this is 

usually mono only. 

A perfect example is the CP10 PAL 
encoder from Third Coast 
Technologies, it offers as good a PAL 
signal as you're are ever likely to need 
plus a full complement of the upgrad. 
ing options as listed above - all yours 
for £150. Not bad value, as a glimpse 
at the price of similarly expandable gen- 
locks will illustrate. 



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Video 

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JoysUth 

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Printer 

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MODEM etc. up t« 19200 gaud lull-diiplei 

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PROGRAMMING 




Responding to queries by readers, i have 
now written a. full assembler version of a 
routine to read an IFF picture file - the 
routine k available on this month's CoverDisk. 

Interchange Formal files (or IFF*) are a conve- 
nient way of storing data in a way that any program 
can recognise. Usually the file starts with 3 group 
header. This has a group ID of four Ascii letters, the 
Lota! file length, and then the ID of the type of file. 

The picture files that I have come across are usu- 
alry ILSM (intedeaved bitmap) or ACBM (contiguous 
bitmap) but there could be others as well as files for 
music or text data. The file would consist of a series 
ol chunks, starting with a chunk ID and chunk 
length followed by the chunk data. All chunks are 
read by the program. Chunks like DPPV and CRNC 
are ignored, but the following are processed: 



BMHD 






CMAP 



ABIT 



80DV 




The bitmap header has the depth, 
width and height of the picture and 
the screen it came from, and a flag 
to indicate whether the data was 
compressed. 

This chunk contains a list of the 
colours used, 

This Is the main data for an ACBM 
picture. Ihe information is stored 
far a complete bit plane at a time. 
Data (or an ILBM file. The data for 
all the bitptanes of the first screen 
row is followed by similar data far 
the other rows. If there are a lot of 
bytes the same colour the data may 
be compressed to save disk space. 
The usual algorithm is to use a flag 
to indicate whether the nest few 
bytes are to be read individually or 
cloned. 



Margaret Stanger presents a full assembler 
version of a routine to read IFF picture files 



It is interesting to look at the data in a real IFF file to 
see how it is put together, Enter "type piety opt h" 
for a look at the different chunks and their contents. 
A typical chunk header for a ftMHD chunk of 20 
bytes would look like: 



Colour information would start: 



43W1H flMMHO DODOOODO 6DO0ODM flMUtDOD MINI 

This would indicate 30 bytes of colour information 
starting with black (00 Of) 00), dark green (00 60 
00), lighter green (TOO AO 00), light green (00 EG 00) 
and camel or taupe (A0 80 40). 

I wrote a general purpose file reader thai could 
be accessed from any assemWcr source module, The 
picture filename, destination bitmap and tolouriiat 
vary, so they would be the input parameters for the 
routine. The routine "readfile" reads an ILBM or 
ACBM file where: 



is the address of the filename 
is the address of the bitmap structure 
to be used assuming this bitmap is 
initialised and the rasters conettly 
allocated - the bitmap must allow 
enough screen memory (or ihe 
picture I 
colouriist ft a poller to where the colours are 
to be stored, eg coloudist: ds.w 32 for 
32 colours 



name 
bitmap 









Devpac macros 



A macro Is a small piece of frequently used 
code that Is included in a source file when it 
Is compiled. This macro is called in the 
source code, and included al compile time 
like a header file, so the source code can 
remain fairly compact. 

The macro code is included in the object 
code every time the macro is called (unlike ■ 
tall to a library routine) so there are no extra 
overheads al run lime, Some ertra memory 
is needed for object code, but this is usually 
offset by other advantages, especially on 
short macros. 

The Devpac assembler has macros avail- 
able for calling Amiga library routines, To 
lade full advantage of these, use the follow 
Ing routine to open the DOS library: 



where space is reserved in the data section 
for each library pointer and library name, 



A call to the DOS library routine. Delay, 
would then take the form: 



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The macro CALlDOS would save the con 
tents of register a6, load ao with the address 
in location DOSBase, call the required 005 
Library routine, and restore the original con- 
tents of a6. 

It is the no longer necessary to declare 
each library routine as an external reference, 
but the header files exec/enec llb.i, 
libraries .dos i. and librarles/dos lib.i need to 
be Included- 



The module assumes that the file is present, is ILBM 
or ACBM, and that the bitmap and COkwrtt are 
OK. When these conditions are met the module will 
read in the named picture tile, unscramble it, put it 
in the chosen bitmap, and put its colours into your 

cotoufO. 

The module also assumes that there is enough 
memory for Che compressed data while it is being 
decoded; this memory can be reused later. If mem- 
ory is short, the module could be adapted with a 
smaller buffer to read in part of the data at a time. 
This would slow down ihe program - there would 
be more processing and disk access would be less 
efficient 



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The rouw* runs sKgbuy faster than its C equiva- 
lent; a C programmer may want to resort to such a 

routine if picture files « to be read several times 
dunng a program run. 

It is passUe to call an assembler function from a 
C module by declaring the assembler function 
address as *n eternal reference, Any values are 
returned via register dO. 

If using any address registers other than aO and 
a1 , push the registers on to the stack at the begin- 
nng of the assembler routine, and pull them off at 
the end. C routines would put their input variables 
onto the stack, rather than into data registers, so the 
assembler routine would need to be adapted 
sfightfy when being called from a C program, 

The demo program on the CoverDisk contains 
two source modules, pix.a and iff read2.a, which can 
be assembled and linked together In the normal 

way, 

The object module, pix, clears the screen by 
blanking out the colours. The ILVM picture file, with 
the filename specified in the calling program, is 
opened and read. The BMHD chunk gives instruc- 
tions on the dimensions of the picture, and the 
number of bitpfanes and colours. 

The colours from the CMAP are copied to the 
cotourfist in the calling program. The picture data in 
the BODV chunk is read in, decoded, and copied to 
the bitplanes specified by the bitmap structure in 
the calling program, The file is closed, and control 
goes back to the main program, 

The picture is displayed on the screen until the 
user presses the joystick Fire button, or clicks a 
mouse button. If s-ou want to watch the operation 
In slow motion, comment out the first jsr 
_LVOLoadRC&4(a6) instruction in the main pro- 
gram. 

Then you will see the current screen contents in 
the default colours while the picture is loading. Call 
the "wail" routine after each line - or even each 
plane to see how the picture is slowly built up. 

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Audible plagiarism is bhg business in the 
music scene. As a consequence, it was 
wily a matter of time before the sticfcy- 
tingcred exploits of numerous producers and musi- 
cians made their way onto the Amiga. 

Whether you agree with the practice or not, 
sampling other peoples' work is a tact of life and 
has become the norm rather than the exception, 

The two latest floppy-based collection* offer radi- 
cally different approaches to the art of second-hand 
song compilation. The first comes from Time and 
Space and features edited sampled backbeat song 
sections rather than individual sounds. 

The second selection of swag appears courtesy 
of Gajits' Music Software and arrives as a five-piece, 
floppy-based selection containing between 30 and 
40 individual samples on each disk, all 
borrowed/pinched^ lilted/blagged and generally 
leased on a permanent basis Irom a variety of the 
very latest state-of-the-art sequencers and modules, 

We'd open with the dance-dedicated element of 
the duet ZefChG comes hot from the all-nighter, 
bringing with it a selection of 72 edited samples 
universally know as Breakbeats. 

The collection is derived from the personal col- 
lection of Ed Slratlon - AKA Man Machine - who, 
according to the bumph, is a world renowned 
techno pioneer. 

.All the samples have been captured as IFF files at 
16,726 cycles per second. As you might expect, this 
makes foe very impressive results - it is, after all, 
roughly double the sampling rate for the average 
Amiga sample. 

Where appropriate, loop points have been 
added making it possible to build an entire section 



Paul Austin examines a phenomenon that's 
spread from the rave scene and finally 
invaded the world of Amiga software 



Perfect packages 


All the programs listed below are ideal for handling Amiga-based 

samples, For the newcomer MED fs perhaps the perfect choice. 

It's not only cheap but boasts one ol the best piano roll formats 
around while having the added bonus of a built-in, If slightly basic, 
sample editor in versions 3.00 and onwards. 


&ars and Pipes Professional 


Zone Distribution 


Digital Musician 


Centresoft 


DMC5 (Deluxe Music Construction Set) 


Electronic Arts 


Dynamic Drums 


Not known 


CMC (Game Musk Generator) 


Public Domain 


Instant Music 


Electronic Arts 


KC5 


Zone Distribution 


MED (Musk EDitor) 


Public Domain 


Music Composer 


Public Domain 


Music-X 


The Software Business 


NolseTraeker 


Public Domain 


Oc tamed 


Amiganuts United 


Oklaryser 


Public Domain 


Ptotrackef 


Public Domain 


Quartet 


Microdeal 


Sequencer One 


Gajits 


Sonix 
SuperJAM! 


Cenresoft 

Zone Distribution 


Tf MX 1 &2 


Ubisoft 



Dr song around a single looping sample, The breaks 
themselves have been pre-edited to cycle perfectly, 
All you need dD is glue the various elements 
together, 

Aside from simple cycling repeats, some beats 
offer intra breaks with associated backbeats that con- 
tinue on perfectly after the initial intro sample. 

All the samples ate tuned to middle C, so there 
should be very little editing required. Nevertheless, 
the accompanying manual offers advice on how to 
create or recreate looping samples, and how to com- 
bine a single intra sample with an infinitely repeating 
backbeat. 

Advice 

The tutorial goes on with further hints and tips on 
adjusting loop points and the creation ol single 
instrument sustain loops. The entire tutorial section is 
based around AudioMaster 111, but don't be put off if 
you're the proud owner of either Audition 4 or 
Intersound, as the advice is fairly general and should 
port over to other packages very easily. 

Generally speaking, the Zero-G collection is excel- 
lent for dance fans but next to useless for anyone 
else. Having said that, there is a chance to do a little 
poaching of your own, as sounds can be isolated 
with a decent sample editor and lifted tor latter use. 
The sound quality and editing is very impressive, 
and the samples could easily 
slip back into the rave scene 
without anyone noticing their 
Amigan ancestry. 
As mentioned earlier, Gajits' 
collection offers a slightly 
more purist approach to audi- 
ble plagiarism. Rather than 
offering complete sections, 
they concentrate solely on 
individual sounds sampled 
directly from various 
unnamed sequencers and 
modules. 

As a consequence, song con- 
struction is a little more long- 
winded but infinitely more 
original than its dance-orien- 
tated counterparts. 
All the voice samples are 
recorded at 1 ,200 cycles per 
second, which at first glance 
appears inferior in comparison 
to the Zero-C collection. It's 
true that the quality at the 
deal pitch isn't as good but 
Uiis is negated by the added 
range which the slightly lower 
sampling rate provides, 
The choice b a simple one. II 
a sample is taken at a high 
rate, its sound at perfect pteh 



Power players 

H you consider yourself a serious dance devo- 
tee, the world of 8 bit sampling is probably 
well below your requirements. As a result, the 
CD based version of the ZeroG collection 
could be ideal. 

The complete three-CD set contains 
approximately 1,000 assorted samples cover- 
ing the entire spectrum of modern dance 
music. All the sounds included are fully blown 
16-bit replka» ol the originals, with breaks, 
vocal hoots, special FXs, keyboard samples 
and just about everything else any would b 
DJ or producer would ever need. 



is indeed better But when high rate samples are 
moved s^> or down through the octave range they 
become distorted far ouster than samples recorded 
at a lower rate. As a result, there has to be a compro- 
mise when recording sounds which are to be played 
over numerous octaves. 

Because percussion is generally used at or around 
perfect pith. Caffs' have sampled all such sounds at 
25,000 cycles, which even 
outstrips the impressive 
fidelity d the Zero-G col- 
lection. 

For the true musos 
out there, this collec- 
tion has to be the bel 
ter choice of the two 
especially if you want 
truly original results 
and don"; mind 
putting a Irttle more 
time into their ere 
atjon. 



Zero-G Dataf ik? Amiga 

Breakbeats vol 1 (five disk, floppy-based collection) 

Price £29 M 

Zero-C Datafile CD 

Any single volume for £49,95 

Any two volumes for £89.95 

' All three for £129.95 










All Zero-C products available from Time and Space 

PC Box 3Q6, , Herts, HP4 3EP 

Tel; 0442 870681 

Sampler Series 

£9.95 for the next two months, £1 2.95 thereafter, 

£39.95 lor all five 

Gajits Music Software, l-Mex House 

40 Princess Street, Manchester, Ml 601: 

Tel: 061 -2J6 251 5/4 



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Last month we looked at bulletin boards 
and conferencing systems and ended with 
a warning about costs. But costs, car be 

cut dramatically in a number gf ways. 

Although you should be able to find plenty of 
boards which are only a local call away, some of 
the more interesting ones are likely to be at the 
otfier end gf the country, and long distance calls 
are expensive. If you think you'll be making lots 
of lung distance calls, it's worth getting a 
Mercury account. 

Thb alternative telephone system is now avail- 
able from almost anywhere in the country, 
although some areas are still not covered. The 
system works on a PIN code basis. For about £8 
per year you are issued with a personal code 
which is dialled before the normal telephone 
number. This puts you into the Mercury system 
and cuts EST out altogether. 

Any calls made in this way are billed to you by 
Mercury so that theoretically you need only ever 
pay IT lor their standing charges - line and 
equipment rental and so on. Mercury calls work 
out a good deal cheaper for all except local area 
calls and if you use the phone a lot. this can add 
up to a substantial saving. 

Another useful feature of Mercury is the 
option of allocating cost centre codes to the PIN 
These two or three digit numbers are chosen by 
you and are a handy way ol separating different 
types ot calls when the bill comes in, 

For Instance, a different cade could be allo- 
cated fo each member of the family, plus one lor 
each BBS you dial regularty. The bill Is itemised 
with cost centres totalled separately. 

One small problem with Mercury is that you 
might need to buy a new telephone to handle it, 
However, these need not be too expensive,, and 
for around £30 you will be able to get hold of a 
spanking new phone with number storage facil- 
ity which saves you from having to feed in a 10 
to 20 digit code every time you dial. 

More expensive models with built-in answer- 



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but all you really need is a piece of apparatus 
capable of handling tone dialling, 

There is a simple way to pin chat sessions 
inexpensively, and here a high speed modem can 
be a great money-saver. Since reading and writ- 
ing messages lakes a lot of time, it makes sense to 
do sa while not connected to the BBS, by means 
of an Q[$ (offline reader), such as OU*2, as found 
on the Amiga Computing Coverfjislt a few months 
back, 

This is simply a piece of software which will log 
on to a board automatically, find all the messages 
you haven't read yet, bundle and compress them 
and finally download the file to disk, When this is 
done, the OLR will log you off automatically, 

Ne*;t, and in your own time with no charges 
ticking up, The OLft wilt allow you to read the 



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fectiv* method of cutting costs, although very expensive In ■ buy a taster modi I 

may or may not be cost effective in the long run, depending upon your usage pattern .ind the sort 
ol telephone line you h 

The biggest t;> ; ■'•t modems comes il you upload and download U/ fven 

though files are generally handled in compressed form, a full size game can take at least 
,],. .■,■..•! i . relatively slow (1200 baud) modem 

-,-n the line in less than five minutes with one of the high speed 
modems now on the market. If you handle lei in add up to a substantial saving on 

both juvr pfidth: "3* ty •** heL ''' 

■ more interested in chatli^ : I < I "-iards r a I, i not necessarily save 

you much money. After a certain point you reach the stage where the speed of data transfer is linrv 
em but by your typing spei wgh speed modem if all it's 

: n mi i nig wail ing (or your lingers to i ,n- 1 
Again, many boards are quite slow In operation, I i< 10 Find and select the next 

menu • hoseri. Here the modem has to wail (or the system rather than you. II you intend to 

spend me online reading and writing mesai " the sysop {sys- 

tem operator) then you really dan r l need anything above 2,400 baud - more power will simply be 
wasted. 



messages n any outer you wish and give you the 
opportunity to reply to interesting ones of make 
new messages of your own. 

The next imw you log on to the board, the 
OLR wtii upload your messages and place them in 
the system before downloading the next batch of 
unread mes»g«. This method of working is 
called 'blinking* and is a tremendous money- 
saver, In fact you shouldn't think of using any sys- 
tem regularty without investigating which OLRs 
are available on that board. 

Shareware 

Most OLR software is shareware, including the 
one 1 am currently evaluating, Amiga Silver 
Express is inslalled in my local board as a menu 
option. When I log on I can simply choose this 
option, decide which messages I want to capture, 
then download the compressed bundle created 
by the system. 

Although this part of the operation is auto- 
matic, the logging on and off is not. This has to 
be handled by a script, which is rather like the 
start-up sequence used when you boot your 
Amiga. It is simply a list of instructions saying 
what to answer when the BBS offers various 
prompts. Setting up scripts demands quite a 
good knowledge of each BBS you wish to use, as 
each will present prompts and menus differently. 
T«to if wsiiy bandied by ftjwnp 3 rmge of differ- 
ent scripts, one for each board, and a piece of 
comms software which can handle them r 

The most widely used comms software on the 
Amiga is Ncomm, which handles scripts effort- 
lessly and allows a phone book to be created to 
store both the telephone numbers of each BBS 
and all the settings, usemames and passwords 
required. Ncomm is available for download from 
most bulletin boards which offer files, and is well 
worth a look. 

Amiga Computing 






June 1992 



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• For Amiga PD, Send rlisk and SAE to; lay- 
Dee, 189 Sxalby Road, Newby, Scarborough 

• Power- monger; Corporation; BTTFll; 
Lombard rally,' Elite; Darys/Th under- the Lot - 
£25 or swap? 

• Amiga conlax software swapping, Please 
contact Kevin, 7 Willins Coenjera, Cwmbran, 
Gwent, 1 00% reply 

• 512K MM, clock expansion board for A50Q 
fVCC) efm Sysinfodiik£20. Tel: 0/42 437073 
9 Amiga contacts wanted. Write or Phone:- 
387 Stour Road, Catstlill, Brum sgrove, Worrs, 
B619LG. Phone 0S27 79921 

• Prowrite 1.0 (as newj £50 - Contact f Thys 
Brandernaatweg" 120 , 7524 PD Fnscbede - 
Holland 

• Dual Impact, new disk magazine on two 
disks. Coils. £1.00. Phone (0909) 550501 for 
info 

• Atari 5205TFM includes lit word Plus and 
Supertiaie boxed. £140 ono Phone 051 151 
01 78 After 6.30 pm 

• l.JHOM Amiga SOD 1MB r Lemmings, DPaint 
J. Plus games £275 one, Tel 029B 71041 After 

5. 3Qpm 

• Amiga PO contacti and swappers wanted to 
enhance my large collection, Phone 021 458 
2404 Anytime 

• Amiga. PD Libary for sale, over 200 disks for 
only£100 lei: Alan 0525 383850 

• Xerox 4020 ink pet colour printer, superb 
results, does overhead transparencies etc W00 
(0244 «1 S0M) 

• Programmer wanted in Bristol area to use my 
graphics n games and programs, send exam- 
pie programs to me and I'll send you example 
graphics. Lee Martin, S Queens Road, 
KeyOSham, Bristol, BS18 2 ME 

• Various Amiga games all boxed from £5. 
Phone after Six.Neil 0275 851 270 Bristol Area 

• AS0O, PCJ80B, joystick DPaint 1. 2 game. Power 
packer pm, £350. Phone Davit Vbrlt 0904 6246 J7 



• Wanted - Micro text WF o* copy o» startup 
sequence. Phone 0623 793946 

• At Hrldgeboafd £2 SO ono includes VGA card 
and PC 720K drivq, Howard 071 928 471 6 

• Swap your Amiga software for details, senrJ 
a large SAE to Andy c/u Amiga Exchange, 42 
Limoges Court Alsace Park, Duston, 
Northampton, NN5 6VQ 

• Amiga mouse button replacement, 
micnoswitrhes Resurrect two dying niouie 
buttons £5.50. Amiga 7/1 4 M Hi accelerator 
upgrade (like Adspeed) £47.50. My own 
unique QuiCkShoL warrior 5 Amiga analogue 
joystick i I 8.50. SAL details S Barr, 1 6 OgiMe 
Road, Stirling 

• PD Software to eachange plus contacts PO 
tax 21, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6¥| or 0342 
635530 

• Supra 2400 Modem £75, 200MEC Yoke 
£40, Life and Death £10 r 0736 7529S2 

• Commodore AS 90 20MB hard disk with 
2MB RAM. Also included are all manuals, 
setup software and RAM test software £210 
ono. 0705 596018 

• A590 hard drive with IMeg RAM. Six 
months old. Boxed, £250. Phone 0491 
8738B2. May deliver 

• PD Wanted lists to: Andy, IS Fields Park 
Drive, Alcester, Warts, B49 6QR. Tel: 0799 
764039 

• DTP Users,! Contact me for exchanging 
fonts, clip art ii lips, etc, M Braten, 
Dyrelrakkert 2, N-4033 focus, NORWAY 

• Power PC88.0B externa* drive £50 1 .3 
Kickilart Rom £15- Contact Keith Mankin 
D922 743668 

• Wan reef Bards Tale two and three hints 
booklets Phone 0602 225594 N D-Brown 

• Scotch Guy seeks Amiga penpals Irom any. 
where - Brian, 6 Peathlll Terr, Bonnybridge, 
Scotland 

• 1MB AS0Q excellent condition plus 10 
games £280 Phone 0266 B9B07J3 

• A590 hard drive wrth 2Meg boxed new only 
Jmfh old £2B5 ono Tef 0702 131779' 

• Privaie PD Collection for sale, over 100 
disk!. Choose 50 lor £25 Tel 0272 641 947 

• DPaint 3, Lemmings, Captain Planet. All 
unused (Sealed boxes. Bargain £1S the LOTl 
067161669 

• CDTV, unwanted prire, £395 ono Tel 011 
668 2147 after 6 pm (Fdinburgh) 

• Amiga Action replay + manual £30, Klckstart 
l.iRom+WM.?2 Phone 0384 872 403 

• New and PP-4«5 Amiga user seeks friendly 



contacts in similar situation, Graham 0321 

894767 

• Wanted Cheap! Arty Devpak or Kseka assem- 
bler. Write Myk, 36 Greta Road, Norton, 
Cleveland, TS20 1BD 

• Boy, lo, Wants penpals. Interests utilities, 
games, anything! |ean Claude Pace, 27 High 
Street, fiamrun, Malta 

• PD to swap: on 1 -2-1 basis Send SAE to M 
Ha^elby, 14 Lydd Close, Eastbourne, East 
Sussex 

• Looking for Amiga friends in Britain. 
ftogusiaw Zieniuk. UL Bogusiawa II 16/1, 7S- 
058 Koualin, Poland 

• Amiga software lor sale. Design 3D 
Wonderland plus lots more, aft between 
£10/£15O9OO6!S74 

• Games-time scanner, Buggy boy, 
Vindicators, Star Glider, and more. Ring 0518 
171008 After Spm 

• Video camera Hitachi HV720K for digitising, 
new condition, boxed £120, Phil Tearne 08fiS 
842149/777799 

• Swap PD with rnel Send SAE list to Andrew, 
20 Geraints Way, Cowbndge, Glamorgan, CF7 
7A 

• Amiga contacts wanted 100% reply. Write 
to Keith Heselton,1B Westbury Road. Swindon, 
Wiltshire, SN2 SDA 

• TBA 9.1 1-55- incl. £32. Also Fish 500 - 604 
inc £58, Will Split. Tel: 0541 462908* 
Symbols libraries Acad.Dxf. Wrhe in: Mark 
Peters, 151 S hen ley f-ields Road, Sedy Oak, 
Bimiing-ham, BZ9 SBD 

• tye of Beholder, boxed, as new, with extra 
hint book. £16, Phone Paul 0274 6J1041 

• Original boxed games: Sim City, 
Corporation, Hard Drivin', Batman: £10 each, 
Phone Peter, 0B81 146372 

• 52mb Quantum £140, ICD controller £80, 
Xetec controller with Ham P00, 0731 241063, 
Alter 6 p 

• Wanted PD games, swaps, music and demo 
swaps, Marcus, 33 Kingshill Road, Swindon, 
Willi, SN1 4L| 

V Amiga contacts wanted worldwide. Write D 
Southwell, 3 Hutting Grove, Terrace Old, 



Farreley, Leeds 

ft Original i/hand Amiga software. Very cheap, 
Send SAE to J S Smith, 45 MaplecroU Crescent, 
Sheffield, S9 1 DN 

• AtDnce PC Emulator for A500. £85, 11 
months old, selling because skint! 
Northampton 06M 847874 

' • Wanted DIS, view sold package. Swap LCD 
colour monitor for Camcorder! Call 0336 
446012 

• Amiga contacts wanted 10C% reply. Keith 
H, 18 Westbuty Road, Penhill, Swindon. 
Wiltshire, SN2 SDA 

• Amiga cumms kill Supra 2400 modem, soft- 
ware and cable. Boxed, as new £80 0561 
39699 

• Wanted Amiga contacts., Send to Keith, 1 A 
Sewn Cbse, Peiedee, County Durham, SR8 
lux 

9 3D construction kit £1 5, Board genius £1 5, 
Ml Tank Platoon £1S, Wingi £12, 048 17 
10833 

• Original Am ga games for sale, irom £15. 
Phone 081 301 5129, After 6 pm 

• Supra S0GIU Ram expansion, only £130, 
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Peter Hickman shows 

you how to hypnotise 

your relatives using just 

your Amiga,., and a 

copy of Amos! 



Your Amiga b blessed with a wonderful 
collection of 4,096 different colours. 
With these colours we can create _new 
worlds and alternate realities with art package's lite 

Deluxe Paint. With Amos, we can go a step further 
and use the power of colour to produce anima- 
tion. 

Before we go into too much detail, it will help 
for you to know a little bit about the way colours 
are handled by the Amiga, Under ordinary circum- 
stances you can display 12 individual colours 
onscreen. Tftese are stored in colour registers. You 
can think of a colour register as being an empty 
paint pot, which we can fill up with any colour. 

At its simplest form you can see colour cycling 
at fairgrounds and fancy Christmas displays. This 
happens when a string of unlit bulbs are switched 
on in sequence one at a time, This gives the illu- 
sion that a bulb is moving along. We can demon- 
strate this with a simple program. 

The first step is to open up our screen, so go 
into the Amos editor and type; 

Urttn Opin D,J20, 2011,14, Limftl 
FLiih *ft 
Cts 
Cuts 01' 

Mow we must set up our palette. Remember that 



each of the numbers in the following line represent 
the "paint" that we are pouring into the paint pot 
(colour register), 

The colour which we have poured into colour 
register number one - remember that the 32 dif- 
ferent colour registers are labelled from to 31 - is 
white (SFFF) and represents our bulb which is 
switched on: 



SMfFi,iC,JD,lll,!!),lO ( JO,tO,(D,«,*l!,lD ( iD,(3,(C. 



Now we must draw our light-bulbs, Each one 
will use a different colour, selected with the PEN 
command; 

rtp«r II 

For LSP=1 To 15 
hilW 

unit w 

Prim "( "} 
Hit LOP 

The linal stage is to start the colour cycling up. 
We will do this using the Shift command, which 
uses four parameters, The first is the speed at 
which the colours will cycle, the second and third 
specify the start and end colour registers which will 
be cycled and the linal parameter is for special 
effects - which we will not be using! 

Just how does it wort? Well, the Shift command 
will move the colour stored in register number 1 
into register number 2, the colour in register 2 into 
register 3, 3 into 4, 4 into 5 etc. It's a bit like pour- 
ing the paint from one pot into another! 

Shi't Up 2,1,15,1 
Hrttl 

That's it, Simple, huh? 

Another interesting use of colour cycling is to 
produce weird backgrounds far games and demos 
- or hypnotising friends and relatives! 

In the next example we will draw a small block 



EASY 



Run | Test | Indent (Blocks Menu (Search Menu 

Tutop | Help | Ovwwite (Fc Id/Unfold (Li ne Insert 

| I L:i C:i Text : 39826 Chip 18114)6 F«M4«5(B Edit: COLCYC," 

Screen Open 0, 326,218, 16 ,Loti 

Flash Off 

"Is 8 

Palette S8,S5,S6,$^5S,?B r SC,SE, 

For Y=B To 15 
For X=8 U 15 
Read SPOT 

In* SPOT fc 

Plot X,Y % 

Next X 
jext Y 

Set Bob 1,8,8 To 16,16 
For Y-9 lo il 

For X=8 To IS 

Paste Bot M^IU 

Next X 
lext Y 

Shift Up 4,1,6,1 



Practical Amos 

We hawe teen how to create * simple 
Pacman lypr game In Amos, but what's 
n*it* How about educati'm' 

An absolute wealth of educational toft 
ware has appeared in shops and In ptjbth 
domain catalogues since the release ol 
Ainov Many people who have good < 
but have been unable lo Implement (hem 
in traditional Languages - like Amiga Basic 
- have found that Amos allows I hem to 
breath* !•■<- into (heir ideas. 

In the neal issue we will look at ho. 
write a simple educational game using 
Amos. Who knows, you could go on to 
write s om ething amazing using the ideas I 
will prevent - this Is you chance lo gel 

ripped off by a top sollware com| 

don't miss n' 



16 X 16 pott* in see. grab it as a Bob and finally 
paste * M w*f the screen. Once again, our screen 
must be opened up, and a palette selected. In this 
case l tsavv used shades of blue: 

tn,IH,H,U»rti 

i:,s;,i»,u,tf r is,» f tMf 

Now we wi read in the data - sorry, but then? is 
quite a lot of it* - and draw it onto the screen: 

Fir i>9 Tb I! 
Far **0 1p 15 
litd 5p:t 

lilt SPOT 

*iflt t,r 

Htf. I 
Met T 



By using the Get Bob command we can grab this 
imall block and stkk it all over the screen, 20 blocks 
across and 1 2 blocks down; 



id; Bob 1,D ( G Tg 14,14 
fp» T-0 T« VI 

Fir- 1=0 T» 1* 
rtttl Bob (iU,r*14,1 

Nut I 
tfcit T 






We must now start that funic/ colour cycling! This 

time we will be cycling colours 1 to eight- 

ttlft Up 4,1,1,1 

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Practice makes perfect, the old Hying 
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hand scanners. Is concerned, the old 
saying rings- true. 

The quality of trie resultant image will always 
depend on the quality of the original, The natu- 
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greyscale scanned images than colour ones. 

Not true. 

What matters is contrast. A good quality,, 
bright and colourful photograph - one taken in 
strong light, like bright sunlight or under pho- 
tographic lamps - will scan perfectly well and in 
most cases will result in a better 1 6 greyshade 
image than the same image scanned, from a 
black-and-white equivalent. 

You should always use the scanner's halftone 
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usually marked on the scanning head as the 
smallest of three dots. Ignore trie two larger 
dots - on the whole these are a waste of time, 
although they can sometimes be used to get a 
better scan of a low contrast ("muddy"] origi- 
nal. 



Preparation 



Use the highest dots-per-inch setting avail- 
able, usually 400 dpi, and to start with set the 
brightness wheel to the lightest setting. 

In preparation for the scan, try to find a hori- 
zontal line on the original to line up with the 
front of the scanning head, I don't mean 
through the window, 1 mean in front of that - 
look over the front of the scanner and line its 
foremost edge up with something horizontal in 
the picture, preferably as near the top of it as 
possible - often this can be the actual top edge 
of the photograph, 

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scan so that the green scanning light comes on, 
but before pressing the scanning button on the 
head, look through the window and push the 



In the first of two parts, Ben Pointer shows you 
how to achieve superior greyscale scanning 






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To adjust the brightness of an image, simply click on eath colour in 
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sure results in darker images. 



Straight scanning 

You'll find it easier to scan in straight lines 
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It needs to be heavy so that It won't slip 
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Once bitten... 



The Commodore CDTV is not the only 
interactive CD unit twirg aimed at the 
home market. Philips have had their 
CD-I interactive unit ready to launch far several 
years now, They have held back the launch in 
Europe awaiting the FMV (Full Motion Video) 
(hips that would allow the CD-I unit to display 
moving VMS-quality video direct from CD. 

These have not yet appeared at a cheap 
enough price to lit as standard, so the 
European CD-I players will come without the 
FMV chips, but with a socket to add this at a 
later date. 

With manufacturers such as Philips, Sony, 
Matsushita, Sanyo and (VC bringing CD-I play- 
ers to the market, does this spell the death of 
CDTV? 

Firstly, let's compare the technical specifica- 
tions of the two systems. The CD-I has a faster 
processor (IGtvlhi), and a larger colour palette. 
The CDTV has a standard 7Mhi 6&00Q chip 
and standard Amiga graphics modes, hut it 
also has the Amiga custom chip set, which can 
make up for the speed difference between the 
two machines, and more. 

Uniquely placed 

CDTV is uniquely placed. The CD-I unit can 
cope very well with interactive multimedia -type 
applications, the Sega M egad rive-CD unit can 
play mean CD-ROM based games, but only the 
CDTV can really perform well as both a home 
multimedia reference/education system, and a 
home entertainment system. 

Games on the CD-I just don't cut it. The 
hardware is new and non-standard, so there 
are few programmers who really understand 
CD-I. CDTV is essentially an Amiga 500 with a 
CD-BOM drive, and there are thousands or 
good Amiga programmers out there ready to 
produce CDTV titles. 

Initially Commodore tried to hide the fact 
that the CDTV contained a computer - now 
they are actively selling the machine on its 
expansion capabilities. The CD-I box can't be 
expanded into a computer., but by adding an 
inexpensive keyboard, mouse and disk drive to 
the CDTV you can use the machine as a stan- 
dard Amiga. 

The CDTV has Midi ports allowing the use of 
the new CD+MIDI audio disks (CD audio disks 
with Midi data encoded with the music) - 
the CD-I box doesn't. CDTV has 
an optional internal 
genlock., and with 
the recently 

announced AVM 
card it is possible to 
bring CDTV graph- 
ics up to and 
beyond CD-I qual- 
ity, for an extra 
£50. This technol- 
ogy will almost cer- 



The Japanese are backing the Philips-developed 

CDTV rival, CD-I - but have they learned their 

lessons from Betamax video and MPX computers? 

Jolyon Ralph has his doubts 



tainiy be built into future 
CDTVs. 

The major problem with 
CD-I is not hardware, but 
software. A typical CD-) 
development system 
includes a Sun Spa rotation, 
emulator hardware, author- 
ing system, tools and train- 
ing, total cost around 
£44,000- 

On CDTV the costs are 
far less, as there is already 
a large Amiga user base, 
and peripherals and soft- 
ware are very cheap. 



Kickstart 2.0 for GDTV 

Tin CDTV is now coming fitted with Kickstart 2.0 as standard, at the 
new price of £499. Commodore initially told devetopers thai 
machines would come Tilled only with Kickstart 1.3, but recent 
CDTV purchasers have been pleasantly surprised to find that Ihetr 
machines have Kickstart 2.0 fitted. 

There is nol an easy way to lei whether a CDTV Is titled with a 
particular Kickstart version, except lo bool from a Workbench (loppy 
disk, The initial CDTV logo screen contains a small number on the 
granite slab. This is either 1.0 or 2.0. 

This corresponds to the CDTV ROM version, not the Kicksi.ni 
ROM. IF the machine has a 1.0 CDTV ROM then it definitely has 
Kickstart 1.3 - if Ihe machine has a 20 CDTV ROM, then it probably 
Mcis Kickstart 1.0. btU oUu models may stfl have the 1.3 Kickstart 
with the 2 CDTV ROM. 



Several CDTV titles have 
been produced with very basic Amiga systems - 
an Amiga 500 with 100Mb hard drive and 
colour monitor - costing under £1,000, 
although it must be said that an A200O or an 
A300G is a far better system for CDTV develop- 
ment. 

Lower costs 

Because the toils are tar less than on CD-I, there 
are lar more companies developing for CDTV 

lhan for CD-I, and there are more litles currently 
available, despite CD-I having a three year lead 
on CDTV. 

Philips are saying that some of their complex 
CD-I titles are taking 10,000 hours to lest. At 
eight hours a day, that's live years! 

Without the software CD-! is doomed. There 
may be a few high-quality titles out for CD-I, but 
without a large catalogue of litles the machines 
will not sell. Both Philips and Sony got their fin- 
gers burned in the 
home video market; 
they were beaten by 
the VHS format, not 



because their formats were any worse techni- 
cally (Betamax was a far superior system to 
earty VHS), but because most movies came out 
first on VHS. 

And the combined strength of all the 
[aptness manufacturers together against 
Commodore iin't necessarily a one-way fight 
either. The Japanese tried to take on 
Commodore and Sinclair in the home com- 
puter market back in the early 1 9flQs. They pro- 
duced the MS* computer, which despite being 
a nice machine, with lots of different models, 
flopped in most of Europe because there just 
■ the software to go with it. The Spectrum 
and the Commodore 64 are still selling today. 

Sales of CD-I in the States have been very 
disappointing. Philips are banking on the 
European market to build CD-I, but without the 
software it hasn't got a chance. 









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Shopper shoots! 

Have you seen the latest Amiga Flopper 

caver-mounted "freebie"? I notked 

it on a shelf the other day and 

was so intrigued I bod to take 

it home far a doser inspec- 

iron. 

Having disposed of the 
150-page packaging, I 
examined my free "Tracer" 
and found it to be & dear plas- 
tic tens complete with crosshairs 
and mounting brocket. What could it posst- 
blv be, ! wondered? 

The answer to this question eluded me for 30 agonising 
seconds, then it hit me with the force of a phone book from 
three floors up, and the sheer audacity of the plan left me 
trembling in awe. 

It become clear that, with its lens-like qualities and 
accurate crosshair, the tracer could be nothing other than 
the first instalment of a complete high velocity sniper's rifle! 

At last, a new marketing pta|/, the tint attempt in his- 
tory lo distribute a valuable piece of weaponry diigvised as 
a collection of worthless junk! Mastedy! 

1 awoil with baited breath fruitbat Pubtishing's attempt 
to cover -mount the barrel which must surely measure 
atmxt a metre in length, Look out for a 'biggest ever 
issue", snoopers. 




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Barrel laughs as spring slump bites 



The lower portions ol barrels all over the Amiga com- 
munity are showing signs of scrape damage as iho tra- 
diliuiwl ipftng slump reduces the flow of new product 
releaie-i to a trickle. 

Magazines in particular are finding it hard to drum 
up decent stories, leading to some of the moil 
appalling space Hulling seen this side of The Guardian's 
launch issue. 

Not content with printing their gallery section twice 
(once in black anil while, once In colour) hacks at the 
moribund Virus User International have recently 
resorted to extreme measures to cover up lil.il.ml 



jtlacks ol waffle itis, making even this crude page filler 
look like serious Amiga journalism. 

Witness poor Gary Fen'Xi, whose article on the IV24 
i M il was drowned at birth when the suppliers 
demanded its return before he'd even opened the box. 
The resulting page was so windy thai a kindly art editor 
decided to set it against the most grotesque rainbow 
pattern he could muster, thus rendering the text 
unreadable. 

The hapless Fenlun was reduced for several days to 
pleading for compassion on the anorak ridden CiX I ml 
letin board. Better luck next lime, Gary! 



Commodore in practical joke shocker 

An appealing (surety that should be appalling? ■ Ed) rumour has been sweeping the Amiga Computing offices 
lately thai the entire Commodore UK organisation is no more than a huge practical joke. Lobster set out to 
investigate the rumour and tracked it to its source. 

The joker in question, Brian Ferret, Iwes with his grandmother and three cats at a small farm in Dorset, and 
claims, to be the originator of the Commodore "hoax*. I asked him how he did it. 

"Have you ever phoned Commodore with any sort of request? Ves? Ever noticed that they always ask you if 
you're a dealer, and when you say 'no" they hang up?" 

I said yes, man? or less, but what does that prove? 

"It's just my answering machine linked to an Amiga with a few samples and randomised fob-off s thrown in 
for variety," smirked Brian in triumph, 

But whalj I asked, about the human face of Commodore UK, the ever-present PR man, Andrew BaH7 Surely 
you're not going to teH me he's just a practical joke? 

"Not entirely. That one was done with mirrors and holographic projectors, and it was really tricky. Problem 
is, I never did perfect it, so that's why the whole thing's a bit light and insubstantial.' 

Brian Ferret is 33 and, of course, barking mad. I phoned Commodore to ask them for a reaction to Brian's 
claims, but they hung up when I said I wasn't a dealer... 

Next month - does Bn'an really make A500s from melted down margarine tubs in his potting shed? 



Sacred cows 




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Who could possi- 
bly find any- 
thing interesting] 
to say about o' 
piece of com- 
pressed dirt with 
tots of spindly tin 
legs, looking like 
nothing more than o 
cubist caterpillar with a penchant for WHIP 
dressing down? 

The only people who find silicon chips interesting ore the 
sort who collect TV on/off switches and can usually be 
found at even the busiest parties biinking owlishly from the 
middle of a pocket of silence and free floor space with a 
radius of approximately six feet. 



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;^£ C A1^XJ. A 3000 also available £POA 

■ Monitors and printers also available £POA 

Miscellaneous 





10 Maxell diste, optical mouse, Xipstick £45 
►Power Mouse £15 



Optical Mouse £29-95 



Replacement optical mouse mat £9-95 

A50O Plastic dust cover £9 

Maxell multi colour branded disks (Bra often] £9.95 

Floppy disks bulk £POA 



New PCSSOB 

Now with X-Ct}py Professional! 

Power Computing have teamed up with Cachet 

of Germany to bring- you the ultimate in disk 
backup systems. 

The new PC880B disk drive can be used directly 
with the X-Copy Professional 'Cyclone' software 
wfthoul any extra cables or interfaces. 
This gives you the the power and rdlabilirj cA the 
proven 'Cyclone ba< kup software with the conve- 
nience of the PCSSOB floppy drive. 



.'sn nnw you ..ii have two backup ^y.-iems Bite' 
* v and 'Cyclone 1 available at the touch of a button! 
■==» And the POWtOH stif] has our unique .swilchabie 
^_, anti-virus mode, preventing all write accesses to 

^i the bootbiock of your floppy disks 

' *■■ 

It von all read) own % PCSSOB, and the Cyclone 

copier, a hardware upgrade is available to take 

; your drive up to the latest specification. 

Vv New PCSSOB with Blitz & X-Copy £99.95 
■Jj New PCSSOB (Cyclone; compatible) £79.95* 
&S Cyclone hardware upgrade for existing PC8H0B 
downers £15.00 

- ' 'i ,. drtv* i- .hji'jIiIi- miIj iii RTOISTESED owed* . i K Cop} 
T"—. Pri fes*tanal You mimi provide prod of pyrchina nf X-Copy 

HP* I'm'Ii'- 

P%, PC880 Disk drive £49.95 
i^jgiPCBSI a^im internal drive £40.<K> 
^| PC 882 U000 Internal drive £45 
\? ASM internal ami-dick board £9-95 

<^ Special upgra 

J/ offer) 

A if you consider your scanner system to be inlern r 



PC501+ RAMI Card 

■ tin RAM board is designed ipedalh fof die new 
: A50Q+ computer ami comes with IMH <rf HAM on board 

to expand ymir memory to 2MB of chip RAM, I'lu^ in 

Lind so operation (flis imo trapdoor). 

Gives you 3 total of 2MB of chip ham £*9 
1 32 chip *AM card J6S9-9S 

8MB for any ASOO 




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Blitz Amiga 

Buck up disks at lightning speed 
Stops all external drives from clicking 
l '_ Contains anti-virus from Iwing writien into ttn 
bootbiocker £25 



to the Power Scanner, we will happily upgrade 
and in red ace for only £49.95 

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Full Ehnj'pofl 
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l\\\\ £129 4MB £189 

8MB £299 1 *4Zip £19-95 

2MB for any ABOO 

Economy -Mb KAM externally cased 
1&-Chip'.l x I DIP) 
Mo thpi'pod £99-95 

1.5MB RAM Board 

Plugs easily inio your Amiga 

fully supports 1MB chip RA/rt 

Fully compatible with Fatter Agnus £79 

>:.n bun ' i and show, nm comprfMc wnli '■ 

iVmir AnufljJ need* u> k- i>|iciiei.l. llll* nsq effed ■ ■ -nr Mmnlvl 

1IVIB with Thru'port 
Expand your ASWs memory io a total of 2MB wjthmil 
disposing cd you existing 512K upgrade Wt^ks with 
' 1MB of drip MM, simple Internal ftoing. £49.95 

,_" ■ > UK SAM rmN he -\ ihip iype, or J** ravtwdiflg Win m tenffth) 
J| (\miii Aiiii^.i Deeds :" be opened, iNtmtji dfoa jowr wanaai)! 

^ ASOO RAM Card 

"^j- S12K ram (.'vp.iriMim with battery backed cteck and a 
fc^ free disk p.n keel with useful software [4 chip RAM) £29 
(^ 512K RAM aird wfthoul clock £24 
4 16 chip RAM card with clock £Z4 
"^fc !fi chip RAM card withowl cIcm k £19 
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Aries RAM 

A1 500/A20OO 

iMB £169 AMU £209 



8MB £249 






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Viruses, diskswapping, clicking drives, 
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^^ Liid to the whingeing of the Amiga 
*J user? 

"^-- At Power, we want to tell you jusl 
^» where you can stick your disks and 

worries. In facl we will show you- The 
!^J slot in this picture belongs to our 
Sj- PCfiHOR, the first intelligent disk 

drive. Insert a disk. 

■/ * Now you cun back up Hi lightning 
^ speeds using the inbuilt Blitz Amig;i 
- hardware* , with free software, (even 
if the disk is Atari or PC) and if your 
computer has a virus the PC88dIi will 
^ stop it being written to the bootbtocfc 
of any of yovr drives, though you can 
still save files as normal, 

" ., When you do not want these features. 
?C switch them off and the PCS80B will 
JyC s j[ quietly, without clicking, 
>» pretending to be simply an extra drive. 

The PC880B, the only drive to 
[^ introduce Blitz Amiga, the Power 
£\ . i mi-click device and to combat 
T&I viruses is only available direct from 
* x Power, priced at jusl £60-95 

turn to tell people where to stick it. 

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Out latest dual drive uses the slimline, 
ultra low power NEC drive 
mechanism This drive inkes less lhan 
half the power of a normal floppy 
drive. The new dual drive includes all 
ihe features >ou would expect from a 
Power Computing Drive. 

The NEC drive mechanism is able to 
access high density 1 -44MB disks. 
While this may not be of use to you at 
ihe moment (the Amiga can only 
«ccesa S80K), watch this space for our 
new high density' Interface, on the 
market soon! 

Whisper quiet operation 

Blitz Copier built-in (switchable) 

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CUT-Remove samples between 
pointers and stares it in the cut 
buffer. 

COPY -Copies sample between 
pointers into the cut buffer. 

INSERT-lnserts the content! of 
the cut buffer into the 
soundwave. 

SPLICE-Removes the sample 
between pointers, stares it in the 
cut buffer then slides the rest of 
Che soundwave together, 

CHOP-Removes all of the 
soundwave except for the sample 
between pointers. 

DELETE-E rases the sample 
between pointers. 

MIX-Mixes the contents of the 
cut buffer with the soundwave, 

FLIP Reverses the sample 
between pointers. 

PLAY CUT- Replays the contents 
of the cut buffer. 



ECHO- Adds user definable echo 
between pointers. 

IN -Makes Sample between pointers 
start quietly and build up to full 
volume. 

OUT-Offers the opposite effect to 
IN. 

PHASER-Adds phase shift to your 
sample. 

LOUDER- Adds volume. 

QUIETER- Decreases volume. 

SEEK O-Finds lero points nearest 
pointers, used in looping, 

FILTER-Removes hiss or high 
frequency noise from your sample, 

PACK- Removes every 2nd sample 
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ECHO-Adds echo to and 
incoming sound in Real Time. 

DIRECT-Plays incoming sound 
direct through Amiga, 

SYNTH- Adds user definable 
distortion to sound in Real Time- 

PHASER-Appliei variable phase 
shift again in Real Time. 

STEREO ECHO-Adds digital 
delay between L & ft speakers. 

VIBRATO-Rapidly varies 
frequency of sound, 



LOAD IFF— Load a single IFF 
sound sample 

SAVE IFF -Saves your sample 
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* Fully multi- tasking 

■ JD animated icons. 

* UNDO function, 

* Compatible with workbench 2.0, 

* Runs perfectly on the new AS00P 

* Mono sampling up to 52KHz. 

* Stereo sampling up to I*KHl- 

* 4 or 8 bit sampling. 

r Thru-port for printer or Vidi 
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* Stereo 3,5mm jack plug and lead. 






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